Help ID Japanese Revolver, war souveneir

[gunnails]

My Brothers father in law brought this back from Okinawa after WWII.

Any help with any info or anecdotes would be appreciated.

Brave story behind this guns acquisition during the war.

 

[sigp220.45]

I believe that is a 9mm Type 26.

There's a pretty good Wikipedia page on them.

 

[Texas Star]

Good to have that original holster, too.

 

[gunnails]

Thanks sigp, The Wiki page was quite interesting, I passed along the info to the owners and they were thrilled to learn about the gun.

I am not happy with the way the pictures posted and I am unsure if y'all can read the note that goes with the gun. So I am going to quote below the note for the readers pleasure.

Japanese Officers Gun
Dad got on Okinawa island in WWII
(gun shot at Dad)
-Dad was on a 6 man patrol
Japanese officer shot at Dad and missed
Dad shot back and got him-
20 yards away- Dad took gun
Papers inside handel

I guess the value to be around $500, any one care to comment on the value?

 

[eveled]

Probably worth far more to your family than to anybody else. Pretty neat piece of history, love the note. Ed

 

[Cyrano]

As you have probably found out, it's DAO, and a top break. I once cobbled together a few rounds for one using 38 S&W brass. Forget what all I had to do to it, but I had to thin the rims from the front so as not to make the primer pocket too shallow.