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5th November 2023, 12:07 AM | #1 | |
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you can see some pics of jap troops in malaya and new guinea with billhooks and also photos of americans posing with japanes dead troops with the billhooks shown too, ill try to find some and post them. japanese troops were suplied very poorly when it comes to cutting tools, knives ect and its odd in a culture where swords were still considered valid weapons that daggers, knives, machetes and such cutting tools were rare with their troops and were not common bringback items because of this, most japanese troops used a single cut file to sharpen the only edged tool they had many times- the long bayonet for their arisaka rifle -to a zero edge and even if the metal scabbard bluntened it it could be used to cut like a rather terrible little machete at foliage becaus eof the thinned out blade profle after filing. australia troops heavily issued machetes as did the americans and british. it is strange the japs didnt,. but then the soviets didnt either and most soviet troops just used sharpened shovels and axes for this task- and ther eis many areas in russia where a machete is needed in summer semiforested areas are choked with 3 meter high weeds if not grazed regularly, and you can see it with soem of the siberian natives yakuts for example have many long knives and machetely swords and pol arms that serve and both agricultural tools and arms and yet the soviets didnt even issue a pocket knife let a lone a billhook or a machete to troops, they simply didnt care. interestingly a japanese company manufactured mass produced long micronesian knives in 1920s or 30s they were long heavy bladed traditional knives like those made in guam to be sold in their newly aquired colonies in the caroline islands and also sold in guam by japanese traders. those would have been great in the jungle. i think it just came down to the same issue as the ussr... the higherups not caring at all if the troops had proper jungle tools or not, afterall they were not the ones cutting the bush were they.. . |
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5th November 2023, 10:58 AM | #2 |
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Japan did convert Klewangs to Heiho during WW2.
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showpo...4&postcount=30 For more and details info, you can contact the Hemabond group: https://www.hemabond.nl/media/de-kle...blank-wapen-2/ |
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