Rex Applegate
June 21, 1914 – July 14, 1998

• American military officer
• worked for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II
• 1941 – developing armed and unarmed close quarter combat courses for the US Army
•  served as the personal bodyguard to President Franklin D Roosevelt
•  advisor to the government of Mexico “Honorary General”
• Tought John Wayne how to shoot
•  technical advisor on the set of The Alamo
• Applegate was said to be the source and inspiration for several of Ian Fleming’s characters in the James Bond novels
• 1943 he wrote Kill or Get Killed
  a classic manual of Western-style hand-to-hand combat.
• 1976 Kill or Get Killed was published by the US Marine Corps as Fleet Marine Force Reference Publication 12-80
  
• 1941  Applegate-Fairbairn fighting knife
• 1993 – Combat Use of the Double-Edged Fighting Knife