Postwar use of Type 100 smg?

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Postwar use of Type 100 smg?

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Post by Komi » 25 Jan 2021, 15:07

Is there any documentary or visual evidence for postwar combat use, anywhere in the world, of the Japanese Type 100 smg? I know these guns weren't produced in big numbers to begin with, but I thought it was worth asking, since I know leftover Japanese weapons were used in a variety of postwar conflicts from China to Indonesia and plenty of other places in between.

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Re: Postwar use of Type 100 smg?

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Post by Carl Schwamberger » 25 Jan 2021, 16:19

Given the use of Japanese made weapons by Chinese armies its near inevitable the few there were used. The same for the Viet Minh in Indochina. I don't know if the ammunition for this was a common type? If not its continued use would depend on provision of ammo.


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Re: Postwar use of Type 100 smg?

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Post by Komi » 25 Jan 2021, 21:07

Carl Schwamberger wrote:
25 Jan 2021, 16:19
Given the use of Japanese made weapons by Chinese armies its near inevitable the few there were used. The same for the Viet Minh in Indochina. I don't know if the ammunition for this was a common type? If not its continued use would depend on provision of ammo.
Ammo was standard 8mm Nambu (the same as the Type 14 pistol) as far as I know...

Sure, it's not improbable, I just wanted to see any hard evidence if it's available. Would be interesting to see where the surviving Type 100s ended up after the war, at least in combat use (as opposed to GI bringbacks that were never fired in anger again).

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Re: Postwar use of Type 100 smg?

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Post by Carl Schwamberger » 25 Jan 2021, 21:21

China is your best bet. Lots of Japanese weapons and ammunition left there. Too bad this question did not come to me 35 years ago. I was serving with a China Marine, Maj Gen Habel. He had been there as a private in 1945-46.

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