The Japanese Type 38 rifle with its matching Type 30 bayonet. Image: NARA I don’t believe that the Japanese soldiers have had a great deal of training in the technique of using the bayonet. They did very little fencing but attempted direct jabs. They did not use the butt stroke and wer...
it’s in excellent condition inside and out, and it came with a poorly fitting Type 30 bayonet (which were issued to all Japanese infantrymen regardless of whether they were issued any firearm) and a traditional-type canvas sling that appears unused. I’m not expert enough to tell, but I...
The criteria for the control group were as follows: vertical cup-disc ratio of less than 0.6, asymmetry of disc cupping less than 0.2, normal neuroretinal rim followed by the Inferior–Superior– Nasal–Temporal rule without notching and undermining, normal blood vessels on disc without bayonet...
20×124 (as used in the Japanese Type 97), 14.5×114 (as used in the Soviet PTRD and PTRS), .55 caliber round for the Boys Antitank Rifle, 7.92×107 (as used in the Wz-35) and the 7.92×94 “Patronen 318” (as used in the PzB 38 and PzB 39)...