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[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

What is the date on the pomel of the pilots knife?

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[JB71]

What is the date on the pomel of the pilots knife?

JimF4m1s,

The date is 1981.

The knife belonged to an Air Force pilot friend and former military school student of my father. He served from 1977-1997 and flew the A10 Thunderbolt. He was actually involved with the A10 from almost it's first days with the USAF. I believe the A10 was first deployed in 1976. (I think, don't quote me on that) I do know he was part of the A10 's first combat ready fighter wing in 1978 because he had kept in touch with my father and I remember my dad talking about the new "flying gun" the US had when I was younger.

I'm not sure exactly when he first started actually flying the A10 but I know he flew it in the first gulf war when the A10 saw combat for the first time. Anyway, he gave the knife to my dad when he left the Air Force as a gesture for all the help he'd given him in his early years. My dad just passed it on to me.

[A square 10]

not meager at all , thats a fine accumulation of interesting bayonets , my focus is narrow i dont know much of many of those