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    Interesting Picture of captured Arisaka

    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by J-ROD View Post
    this rifle was used by indigenous fighters with modification done to save weight.
    I don't remember seeing this one...but I can't imagine the Japaneseicon allowing their troops to do that to issue kit. It sure looks like it's part of that grouping observed though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by browningautorifleicon View Post
    I don't remember seeing this one...but I can't imagine the Japaneseicon allowing their troops to do that to issue kit. It sure looks like it's part of that grouping observed though.
    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.

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    Looks like Bubba was on vacation on that island.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by J-ROD View Post
    I could see Pilipino, Borneo, or southeast Asia fighters getting rid of extra weight.
    That was my thought originally, maybe one of the local fighters that wouldn't even want a bayonet and would use it for hunting after the war.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Singer B View Post
    Looks like Bubba was on vacation on that island.....
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    Is this even WWII? Could be Vietnam, it is in color which is unusual for WWII.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aragorn243 View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aragorn243 View Post
    Is this even WWII? Could be Vietnam, it is in color which is unusual for WWII.
    It looks colorized to me.
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