10-181 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

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[Bill Hollinger]

Ah, one of a handful of Japanese that surrendered! He is obviously an officer with as much meat on his bones as he has.
Also, note the type 30 bayonet and frog.

[frankderrico]

Yea Bill, noticed the Marine with the Jap bayonet. Wonder how often that happened? I have an uncle that was on Iwo. Two summers ago he told me he had two suveniers to give me from there. He said they were jap daggers, turned out to be Chinese Nationalist daggers. My thoughts were they were souvenirs the Japanese soldiers got in China and carried on Iwo, or they were reissued to Jap soldiers after the invasion of China.....Frank