Well, you made an absolute, unequivocal statement; I was just wondering how you knew with such certainty since I doubted you were in the Japanese Army in WWII. (FWIW, I wasn't either.)
The fact is that unless you have interviewed Japanese veterans, you don't know a darn bit more than I do about what the Japanese did or didn't do, and anything we post is a combination of reading, war stories and rumor. FWIW, I don't believe that Americans found piles of dust covers and bipods, or that they were sent back to Japan as scrap. If they were thrown away, it would likely have been done by individual soldiers wherever they happened to be when they got tired of the darned thing.
If you want war stories and baloney, get on the topic of the ground "mum" sometime. WWII vets never admitted getting rifles out of depots in Japan after the war; every single Arisaka was captured in desperate hand-to-hand combat with Tojo, if not Hirohito himself. "So how did the crest get ground, grandpa?" "Oh, well, you see..." and the fun begins.
Jim
The fact is that unless you have interviewed Japanese veterans, you don't know a darn bit more than I do about what the Japanese did or didn't do, and anything we post is a combination of reading, war stories and rumor. FWIW, I don't believe that Americans found piles of dust covers and bipods, or that they were sent back to Japan as scrap. If they were thrown away, it would likely have been done by individual soldiers wherever they happened to be when they got tired of the darned thing.
If you want war stories and baloney, get on the topic of the ground "mum" sometime. WWII vets never admitted getting rifles out of depots in Japan after the war; every single Arisaka was captured in desperate hand-to-hand combat with Tojo, if not Hirohito himself. "So how did the crest get ground, grandpa?" "Oh, well, you see..." and the fun begins.
Jim
