Allied WWII Manual Extracts on Japanese Handguns

Several manuals produced by the Allies during WWII to educate their forces about their Japanese counterparts included sections on handguns. I have several such manuals so far and have reproduced here the sections on handguns.

To see the extract from the US War Department Technical Manual TM 30-480 Handbook on Japanese Military Forces, September 21, 1942 edition, please click here: Handbook on Japanese Military Forces (Sept 42) (There is also a later edition of this book dated October 11, 1944. I have an original of that one as well as a much more common reprint and even a Japanese-language translation of it).

To see the extract from the June, 1943 publication of the GS (Int), Adv HQ Allied Land Forces, SWPA entitled Japanese Equipment, please click here: Japanese Equipment (SWPA) (This seems to be a Commonwealth publication from Australia or the UK, as it says that its contents are not to be communicated to anyone who does not hold “an official position in His Majesty’s Service”.)

To see the extract from the US War Department, Military Intelligence Division’s December 31, 1943 publication, Special Series Number 19, entitled Japanese Infantry Weapons, you have two choices. There are several rather large files, so I set it up two ways. If you have high speed internet, you can view the pages directly at: Japanese Infantry Weapons for high speed internet. If you have slower service, it might be better to go to the page I set up where you can click and download the pages one by one. To do so, please click here: Japanese Infantry Weapons

To see the extract from the US War Department’s Military Intelligence Service’s November 15, 1944 publication, Special Series Number 27, entitled Soldier’s Guide to the Japanese Army, please click here: Soldier's Guide to the Japanese Army

And to end up with a pretty picture, here is a WWII US military poster for identification of Japanese infantry weapons. It is about 17” X 23” and appears to have been a pullout from a magazine.

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