Sucks all the weapons appear to be rusted out.
Hmmmmmm, some would call them Gunsmith Specials, priced cheap.
Weapons were stashed in many places in preparation for the American invasion of Japan.
So THAT’S where I put them!
Nishitokyo …The literal translation is “Western Eastern Capital”. Funny construct, and it would not exist if the city were still called Edo.
“Japanese Army officials made it a point to impart military training to students as part of their regular curriculum at the time”...
Sounds like going to that school would have been a hoot to practice with machine guns. All we had was .22 bolt action rifle teams.
Looks like the small arms of a whole infantry battalion.
There would have been larger mortars too, I would expect.
Funny the ammo isnt there.
This is quite close to where I live. I’m going to need to get out more with the metal detector. I’ve been salivating for a find like this. I’m stepping up my game from now.
If only they had been buried properly for use later on. Cosmolene in containers may have preserved them. Even so, 80 years buried is a stretch.I own a WWII M1911 that was stored wrapped in cosmolene and is in mint condition.
That said, it is sad that it is ruined...😥
These are clearly weapons that were hidden for use if the US invaded...and they’d have likely been used to kill a bunch of our men. Thanks, Harry, for that bold decision you made - while not many of those men are still alive 73 years on, their kids, grandkids and great-grandkids ARE.
The ‘battle cry’ used to be ‘The South Will Rise Again’.
I certainly hope their stash was/is kept in better shape than this.
Was it Yamamato that said WE(Americans) have a gun behind every blade of grass?
Seems like we probably have more now than then, yet the LIBs claim it is or will be easier to confiscate guns from US Citizens (all 300 million+) than to round up and evict 10 or 12 million illegal invaders.
Good start is the welfare/food stamp office and pull the old R Reagan trick of making people reregister and PERSONALLY pick up your ‘benefit package’.
Talk about the roaches fleeing the open light.
DC hired a ‘new’ Supt of Schools and she required/proposed(Union ya know) EVERYONE to resign and reapply for a job. Found several ‘phantom teachers’ getting checks and all the bennies that come with it.