April 5, 2024
Get Tough Capt. W.E. Fairbairn 1942 Marine Raiders WWII
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Get Tough How to Win in Hand-to-Hand Fighting as Taught to the British Commandos and the U.S. Armed Forces, written by Captain W.E. Fairbairn was published in 1942 in New York and London by D. Appleton-Century Company. It was illustrated by "Hary" and is 7 1/2" X 5 1/4" with a cloth-bound soft cover binding. THIS IS NOT A REPRINT. According to Wikipedia, Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes were responsible for codifying Contemporary American Combatives. The following was taken from Wikipedia: Sometimes called close combat , Close Quarters Combat , or CQC , contemporary American combatives was largely codified by William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes . Also known for their eponymous Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife , Fairbairn and Sykes had worked in the Shanghai Municipal Police (SMP) and helped teach the British armed forces [1] a quick and effective and simple technique for fighting with or without weapons in melee situations. Similar training was provided to British Commandos , the Devil's Brigade , OSS , U.S. Army Rangers and Marine Raiders . Fairbairn at one point called this system Defendu and published on it, as did their American colleague Rex Applegate . Fairbairn often referred to the technique as "gutter fighting," a term which Applegate used, along with "the Fairbairn system." In practice, such military systems are
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