WW2 Japanese Combat Bayonet . NNJ411

WW2 Japanese Combat Bayonet. Type 30 bayonet with straight quillon. Mid-war type design. Marked on the blade ricasso with the “Arrow M” logo and a circle design type logo for the National Denki (National Electric) under Kokura supervision. Blade length approximately 15 3/4 inches, overall length about 20 inches, and about 20 3/4 inches in scabbard. Very heavily worn condition.

Additional Notes: The Japanese Type 30 bayonet was a bayonet designed for the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) to be used with the Arisaka Type 30 Rifle and was later used on the Type 38 and Type 99 rifles and Types 96 and 99 light machine guns. Some 8.4 million were produced, and it remained in front-line use from the Russo-Japanese War to the end of WW2. All Japanese infantrymen were issued with the Type 30, whether they were armed with a rifle or pistol, or even if they were unarmed.

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