Two more japanese images

Japanese marines landing ...

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...eemortar-1.jpg


Sighting in...

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...ghtingin-1.jpg

Way too much finger on that trigger!

Remember, shooting doesn't mean enemy contact. They didn't consider it a landing unless there was shooting! No target necessary!

Are those rifles Arisakas or Type "I" Italian-made rifles?

Ogtree

They are T38 Arisakas' riceone

hmmmm well thanks to the Americans the evil little bastards didn't make it to Australia.... :-)

A.F Medic,
Are the hat emblem's navy? I thought the Japanese marine emblem look'ed like this pic. I may be wrong.

IIRC , the first major contact between US Marines and Imperial Marines was on Wake Island.
The survival rate of the Americans who surrended on Wake ( and Allied units in the Philppines ) was higher than prisoners taken by either side during the Hitler/Stalin mess , at least during the first years...

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Originally Posted by lboos

A.F Medic,
Are the hat emblem's navy? I thought the Japanese marine emblem look'ed like this pic. I may be wrong.

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I do not know. That was what the photographer listed it as. You probably are right!