Japanese SMGs

[Luftflotte2]

http://img130.imageshack.us/i/0001001g.jpg/
Well.....It doesn't say where it would be or who owns it.

[nebelwerferXXX]

nice photos

[Luftflotte2]

Here is the Model 2 as compared to the UZI, again another image-shack photo.

Perhaps it might be best to inquire about the owners of these guns here:
http://parallaxscurioandrelicfirearmsfo ... /forums/74

Some pics of the Type 100's Bayonet.
http://parallaxscurioandrelicfirearmsfo ... ply-208629

[Peter H]

Type 100 being fired,among the many Japanese weapons being tested here.

Youtube,poster apslmarch327

[Peter H]

1942...test firing off ship

[Stephen_Rynerson]

Taki, on your website, you mention "SNLF soldiers equippied with a Bergmann SMG were very effective in the battle of the Shanghai Incident" (http://www3.plala.or.jp/takihome/smg.htm#Bergmann), do you know how the SMGs were deployed in that battle? Were there dedicated SNLF SMG units or were the weapons spread relatively evenly across the SNLF units that participated?

[Akira Takizawa]

Not particular unit, but general SNLF infantry units. Before Shanghai Incident, IJN imported about 320 Bergmann SMGs. They were deployed at 1st (China) Expeditonary Fleet and Shanghai SNLF.

Taki

[Stephen_Rynerson]

Thank you very much for the quick reply!

[YC Chen]

Someone has already asked about that mysterious Chinese SMG:

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 1&t=177499

I myself have also seen that kind of SMG in a museum in Jinggangshan(see the attachment).

[Setsurinvich]

Is there any idea of how many mp 18s and mp 34s the Japanese bought and used in total during the war?

[Akira Takizawa]

According to the following page, IJN had approx. 6,000 SMGs imported from Europe in the last WWII.
http://www.日本の武器兵器.jp/part1/archives/ca ... 2%E9%8A%83

Taki

[Setsurinvich]

Wow good to know!

[Akira Takizawa]

But, note that IJN seldom used imported SMGs in the late Pacific War. It will be because their ammunition was not available in Japan.

Taki