badbobby wrote:
not for me
when I and other Squids were returning to the states to be discharged,we were temporarily bivouacked in A base in San Fransisco(I can't recall the base name)
but when arriving we were ordered to dump our sea bags and to dump any unauthorised equipment we might have on us
my sea bag contained all my clothes, a samurai sword,a jap pistol
and a jap flag
I got to keep the flag and my clothes
I bet the sword was cool. From shows I've seen their guns were very low quality. As the war went on and they ran out of resources because of American bombing and submarines, they were forced to substitute inferior materials wherever they could and their small arms suffered.