Interesting battle damage

[Straightbolt]

Just saw this Type 99 Jap Arisaka posted on a FB Japanese Arisaka page.
Owner says his 94 year old father brought it back from Tarawa. "The black stock came from a marine flamethrower." Thought it was worth sharing the pic. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206872988616172&set=pcb.548203815327226&type=3&theater

 

[KH195]

Very cool. I've seen other Arisakas with the same claim...some with VERY charred stocks. Adds an interesting layer of history for sure!

 

[BigDaddy]

That had to hurt

 

[SKIP]

I wonder if the owner used FPS 4000 for burn protection?

 

[5.56blaster]

That had to hurt

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH I need a band-aid!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Lucca1]

My great uncle operated a flamethrower in the Pacific during WWII. He came back so shell shocked that he could barely speak. I can't even fathom what that must have been like and what he witnessed.

 

[PJDiesel]

My great uncle operated a flamethrower in the Pacific during WWII. He came back so shell shocked that he could barely speak. I can't even fathom what that must have been like and what he witnessed.

No shit, and, NO doubt.....

 

[KH195]

Here's another interesting battle damaged Arisaka that was on GB recently, I bid on it but it went higher than my budget. Bullet strike in the buttplate, shrapnel damage to the stock/floor plate/sling, and in pic #16 those marks look very much like grenade primer strikes (Japanese Type 91/97/99 grenades were initiated by impact to a hard surface). Defintely would have some stories to tell.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=510203637

 

[somd_mustangs]

Here's another interesting battle damaged Arisaka that was on GB recently, I bid on it but it went higher than my budget. Bullet strike in the buttplate, shrapnel damage to the stock/floor plate/sling, and in pic #16 those marks look very much like grenade primer strikes (Japanese Type 91/97/99 grenades were initiated by impact to a hard surface). Defintely would have some stories to tell.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=510203637

That's a pretty wild example.
Too bad no capture or bring-back papers but certainly seems legit.
Cool sling with the cloth too.
Definitely a case of buying the story, not the gun!

as to the rifle in the OP, I can't imagine being on either end of a flamethrower. pretty awful.

 

[Doctor_M]

That is a hell of a way to go. I wouldn't want to be on either end of that encounter... but especially not the receiving end.

 

[Straightbolt]

Someone else in the same thread posted up a family members bring back also with flame thrower damage.

 

[Indiana Jones]

My great uncle operated a flamethrower in the Pacific during WWII. He came back so shell shocked that he could barely speak. I can't even fathom what that must have been like and what he witnessed.

My grandfather as well. Marines frequently rotated duties over there so it spread around the odds good or bad. It was common for Marines from a weapons platoon to act as rifleman and sometimes vice versa. On the job training! A great example of this is With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge. Those gyrenes in WW2 really caught hell.

Interesting rifle. Ill take ten!


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[T-Man]

My grandfather as well. Marines frequently rotated duties over there so it spread around the odds good or bad. It was common for Marines from a weapons platoon to act as rifleman and sometimes vice versa. On the job training! A great example of this is With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge. Those gyrenes in WW2 really caught hell.

Interesting rifle. Ill take ten!


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Here go into battle with a non-bullet proof set of canisters on your back which if punctured form and spray napalm everywhere -- those guys were brave beyond belief.

Cool rifle too.

 

[Indiana Jones]

Here go into battle with a non-bullet proof set of canisters on your back which if punctured form and spray napalm everywhere -- those guys were brave beyond belief.



Cool rifle too.

Those guys left trails in the sand where there nuts dragged.


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[metalman3006]

Here is the one(type53) I got from another war, posted about it awhile back

http://www.mdshooters.com/showthread.php?t=151340