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Help Me Identify This Rifle (SOLVED - Type 99)
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<blockquote data-quote="Perplexed" data-source="post: 2946705" data-attributes="member: 7157"><p>What MM said. It seems to be missing the chrysanthemum symbol, which would have been on the receiver bridge forward of the hole. That was common on Type 99's after the war, when most had that symbol of the Emperor defaced or removed completely since it was considered an insult for an intact symbol to fall into the hands of the enemy. But get this - the Allied occupational army ordered GI's to do a lot of the defacing, to keep the Japanese population appeased. Files and bayonets were commonly used for this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Perplexed, post: 2946705, member: 7157"] What MM said. It seems to be missing the chrysanthemum symbol, which would have been on the receiver bridge forward of the hole. That was common on Type 99's after the war, when most had that symbol of the Emperor defaced or removed completely since it was considered an insult for an intact symbol to fall into the hands of the enemy. But get this - the Allied occupational army ordered GI's to do a lot of the defacing, to keep the Japanese population appeased. Files and bayonets were commonly used for this. [/QUOTE]
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