DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. Above all, enjoy the show. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)
June 4th, 1942 The battle of Midway Atoll. Japan's goal in WWII was to eliminate the United States as a Pacific Power so they could persue their own expansionist goals. Midway would give the Japanese a base to operate against Pearl Harbor from and in doing so it was thought the United States could be forced into a negotiated peace. The Japanese had hoped to trap and destroy the US Pacific fleet but crucial to our success and unknown to the Japanese the United States has already cracked the Japanese codes and plans were known.
...this naval battle was fought almost entirely with aircraft, and, during the fight, the United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength and killed most of its best-trained naval pilots. Together with the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Midway ended the threat of further Japanese invasion in the Pacific. (Britannica)
Battle of Midway - Wikipedia
This week my kick-start knife is the model 334 Large Trapper, aka Millennium Trapper for the year 2000. Many of us remember David Martin's fondness for this knife. In the December 2018 newsletter you can find his brief essay on the knife. Available in 2 handles, smooth black and brown jigged bone. Some of the early ones came in a clam shell jewelry type box. Later they came in the brown/green box with the triangular Edge for Life mountain logo. As a side note the triangular logo was used from about 1997 to 2001. It was one of my favorite Buck logos and I particularly liked the sheaths with the logo stamped on the front. These were a Camillus project exclusive to Smoky Mountain. David mentions they were shipped directly from Camillus to SMKW and never passed thru the Buck factory. I could find no mention in the Newsletters or Special Projects lists other than the Dec 2018 article and have not seen a production quantity. After the demise of Camillus a number of knives were assembled from parts I assume acquired at auction. Minor difference can be telling such as no serial number, missing shields, and brass instead of NS rivits if my memory holds true. /Roger
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