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Nambu Pistols - Japanese military handguns 1900-45 (Paperback)
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Nambu Pistols - Japanese military handguns 1900-45 (Paperback)
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This is the absorbing story of the handguns credited to Nambu
Kijiro, the principal personal-defence weapons of the Imperial
forces. Featuring full-color artwork and carefully chosen
photographs, this book charts the origins, development, combat use,
and legacy of the Nambu pistols. Cutaway artwork reveals the inner
workings of these important handguns, while specially commissioned
battlescenes depict them in use in action. Influenced by the German
C 96 and other semi-automatic pistols, the first Nambu model was
never accepted for universal issue, being confined largely to
purchase by Japanese officers. Adopted in 1925, the 14th Year Type
was to become the best-known of these handguns, serving in every
campaign undertaken by the Japanese in the 1930s and then
throughout World War II. It served alongside the bizarrely
conceived Type 94, intended as the weapon of airmen, tank crew, and
anyone to whom its compact dimensions were useful. When World War
II ended, thousands of Nambu pistols arrived in America with US
veterans of World War II, while others were carried by insurgents
and other armed groups across South East Asia for decades after
1945. Fully illustrated, this is the engrossing story of these
distinctive pistols, from their origins to their legacy.
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