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Message:: [QUOTE="Debora, post: 9730855, member: 1476"]Yes, apparently. Here's an explanation of the 1st Infantry's nickname.  "The 1st Infantry Division, Philippine Army (1ID, PA). Colloquially referred to as the "Tabak" Division, named after one of the fighting blades of precolonial PH." And here's a description of a tabak in the collection of the Imperial War Museum.  (No photo.)  Interestingly, they compare the shape to a scimitar.  <a href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30001886#:~:text=Philippine%20Tabak%20(short%20sword).,Chief%2C%20British%20Far%20East%20Command" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30001886#:~:text=Philippine%20Tabak%20(short%20sword).,Chief%2C%20British%20Far%20East%20Command" rel="nofollow">https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30001886#:~:text=Philippine Tabak (short sword).,Chief, British Far East Command</a>. Debora[/QUOTE]