June 21, 1914 – July 14, 1998

• Learned marksmanship from his uncle Gus Peret
• 1940 graduated from the University of Oregon with a Business Degree
• 1940 join US Army
• developed armed and unarmed close quarter combat courses for the US Army
• 1941 recruited by Wild Bill Donovan for the OSS
• close-combat coordinator for all clandestine missions  in WWII
• personal bodyguard to President Franklin D Roosevelt
• 1943 he wrote Kill or Get Killed
• 1980s designed the Applegate-Fairbairn fighting knife
• 1994 inducted into the Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall of Fame