V-42 stiletto choil or ricasso designed to facilitate a flat or modified saber grip, and a leather handle with a pointed skull-cracking pommel (butt). One source states that the Army placed five separate orders totaling 3,423 V-42 fighting knives from November 1942 through November 1943. However, Case factory records indicate that approximately 3,000 V-42 knives were actually produced, and only one shipment of 1,750 knives to the FSSF was recorded by the Force's supply officer. V-42 stiletto The V-42 stiletto was a stiletto and fighting knife issued during World War II to the First Special Service Force (1st SSF, a.k.a. Devil's Brigade),
Name-bearing type illustration or description itself), even if no longer in existence. Name-bearing type Under the "International Code of Zoological Nomenclature" ("Code"), the name-bearing type is the biological type that determines the application of a name. Each animal taxon regulated by the "Code" at least potentially has a name-bearing type. The name-bearing type can be either a type genus (family group), type species (genus group), or one or more type specimens (species group). For example, the name "Mabuya maculata" (Gray, 1839) has often been used for the Noronha skink (currently "Trachylepis atlantica"), but because the name-bearing type of the former, a lizard