Don't have any information on this picture, but always find period photos fascinating.
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Don't have any information on this picture, but always find period photos fascinating.
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This picture has been posted before. If I remember correctly, a few opinions were this rifle was used by indigenous fighters with modification done to save weight.
Agreed, I highly doubt any Japanese solder would do this and based on the photo, it was probably recently captured and being shown off and not modified by an allied solder.
Not sure where this was taken, I could see Pilipino, Borneo, or southeast Asia fighters getting rid of extra weight.
I just noticed this was on the milsurp forum, the discussion I referenced was on gunboards. Since I mainly access forums on my cellphone Tapatalk app, I assumed this was gunboards.
Looks like Bubba was on vacation on that island.....
Is this even WWII? Could be Vietnam, it is in color which is unusual for WWII.
35 mm still Kodachrome film came out in 1936 so it did exist before WWII. It was easier to develop black and white film especially in an "in the field" situation. More often than not Kodachrome was developed into slides as the photo paper itself was very expensive at the time. This photo was more than likely developed from a slide sometime after the war.