EK COMMANDO KNIFE REFERENCES

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Boyd, Gary "Your Silent Partner - John Ek's Combat Classics" Tactical Knives - Winter 1996 Vol. 2 No. 1 pg. 58-61
Brubaker, Paul L. Cpt. AUS (ret) "Ek Commando Knives" Knife World - Oct. 1991 pg. 6-9,29-30
Buerlein, Robert A. "Allied Military Fighting Knives And The Men Who Made Them Famous" ISBN 0-933489-00-5 (Hardcover) Chapter V "John Ek Commando Knives" 1984 pg. 134-167
Buerlein, Robert "Allied Military Fighting Knives And The Men Who Made Them Famous" ISBN 1-58160-290-1 (Softcover) Chapter 5 "John Ek Commando Knives" 2002
Buerlein, Robert A. "The Commando Knife Of John Ek" The Blade Magazine - June 1985 pg. 26-33
Campbell, Robert "The Ek Commando Knife". Knife World - April 2006 pg. 14-16
Campbell, Robert "John Ek's Knives". Military Trader - September 1991 pg. 62
Campbell, Robert "Ek Commando Knives: the Legend Lives On". Tactical Knives 2006 pg. 66-68
Cole, M.H. "U.S. Military Knives Bayonets & Machetes Book III" LCCN 79-67390 1979 pg. 196-197
Dick, Steven "Where Are All The John Ek Commando Knives?" The National Knife Magazine - Aug. 1986 pg. 22-23
Dunston, Tommy "Ek Commando Knives" Blade Trade Magazine - Winter 1990 Pg. 30-31,37
Edges Staff "Blackjack Completes Rash Of Acquisitions With Ek Buy Out" Edges - Fall 1993 pg. 9,52-53
Hughes B.R. & Lewis, Jack "The Gun Digest Book Of Knives" 1973 pg. 275-277
Hughes, B.R. "Ek Commando Knife" Knife World - July 1986 pg. 9,13
Gordon Hughes, Robert A Buerlein & Barry Jenkins "Knives Of War: An International Guide to Military Knives from World War I to the Present" 2006 pg. 33,109
Krumbholz, Phillip "John Ek Commando" Knife World - Oct. 1988 pg. 22
Latham, Sid "John Ek Custom Knife Maker" The Blade Magazine - Vol II No. 5 July-Aug. 1975 pg. 32-35
Overton, Mac "Ek Survival/fighter: These Knives Have Been Proven Where It Counts- In Combat In 3 Wars! The National Knife Magazine January 1987 pg.
Reisberg, Harvey "Ek Knife Variations" Knife World - Sept. 1989 pg. 14-17
Shackleford, Steve "Vintage Eks: Fighting Knives Bring The Bucks" Edges - No. 45 Fall 1991 pg. 46-48
Silvey, Michael W. & Gary D. Boyd "United States Military Knives Collectors Guide" Self Published 1989 pg. 156-157
Silvey, Michael W. & Gary D. Boyd "United States Military Knives Price Guide" ISBN 0-940362-15-5 1993 pg. 8
Silvey, M. W. "Knives of the United States Military in Vietnam" ISBN 0-9655544-0-6 Self Published 1997 pg. 101-108
Silvey, M. W. "MILITARY EDGE / The knives of John Ek" Knife World - Nov. 1996 pg. 22-25 (Reprinted in "Military Knives - A Reference Book" 2001 pg. 147-150)
Silvey, M. W. "United States Military Knives 1941 To 1991" Self Published 1992 pg. 122-126
Silvey, M. W. "SOG Knives and More from America's War in Southeast Asia" ISBN 978-0-7643-5198-3 2016 pg. 103-107
Stewart, Mike & Adams, Bill "Prototype Knives Illustrated from: Blackjack, Condor, Becker, Ek" Self Published? Unknown date and number of pages.
Trzaska, Frank "The John Ek Knife Company" Oregon Knife Collectors Knewsletter Dec. 2005 pg. 2
Trzaska, Frank "MILITARY EDGE / John Ek Comando Knives" Knife World - Dec. 2002 pg. 23-27
Greg Walker "Made In America By Americans For Americans" SWAT Fighting Knives Vol 1 No. 6 (1st. Issue of Fighting Knives, Winter 1989) pg. 74-77
Wikipedia - Ek Commando Knife Co.
Wright, Bill & Debbie "Theater made Military Knives of World War II" ISBN13: 9780764313905 2001 pg. 152

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