Original WWII Japanese Officer Shin-Gunto Katana with Scabbard - U.S. Marine Island Bring Back DP-28 LMG which engaged the rifling ridges

which engaged the rifling ridges on the bottom of the bakelite grenade housing

An extraordinary system We've never seen before

The included canteen is a WWI 1918 dated M1910 seamed Aluminum example by L

Captured as the fall of the Philippine Islands early in World War II

Original WWII Japanese Officer Shin-Gunto Katana with Scabbard - U.S. Marine Island Bring Back DP-28 LMG which engaged the rifling ridgesOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a fantastic WWII Pacific Theater Bring Back item! We just purchased this from a former marine who was now retired and looking to downsize items they had no use for. This katana was an item they themselves had received from a WWII Veteran Marine some 30 years ago. The story they received with the sword was that it was captured on one of the Pacific islands they had visited during part of the WWII "Island