John, thanks for the article. I hope you don't mind my jumping in here with an old bring back of my father's.

He was in the 20th RCT of the Sixth Army, and was with them from New Guinea through the Phillippine Campaign.

He got this Nambu on Luzon, finding it in a cave, still in the Japanese version of Cosmoline.

He shot it some in the war. When he gave it to me a couple of years ago he included some ammo he got somewhere. I'm not sure where it came from and don't have a lot of interest in shooting it. I don't think it's war surplus.

The pistol is pictured here with the PAL Cutlery pocket knife he was issued and carried throughout the campaign.



The old man's still around, and he remembers the war better than he does last week...