Original Japanese WWII Army Officer Type 19 Kyu-Gunto Parade Dress Sword & Scabbard With Family Crest - Maru ni Sagari Fuji, Fujiwara Clan Manufacture Type_New Made Items 15 JUNE 1944: Post-assault work

15 JUNE 1944: Post-assault work done from D-Day to D plus 5 consisting of buoying channels and blasting work done at request of beachmaster

The head is polished

At 1400 on 20 December 1944

Admiral Fletcher

120 officers and enlisted men

Original Japanese WWII Army Officer Type 19 Kyu-Gunto Parade Dress Sword & Scabbard With Family Crest - Maru ni Sagari Fuji, Fujiwara Clan Manufacture Type_New Made Items 15 JUNE 1944: Post-assault workOriginal Item: Only One Available. The first standard sword of the Japanese military was known as the kyu gunto (, old military sword). Murata Tsuneyoshi (1838 1921), a Japanese general who previously made guns, started making what was probably the first mass produced substitute for traditionally made samurai swords. These swords are referred to as "Murata to" and they were used in both the Sino Japanese war (1894 1895) and the Russo Japanese war