HOW JAPANESE WOULD HAVE FOUGHT AMERICANS
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Received. Friday, 7 p.m. WABHINGTON, A.ug. 30. If the Americans had been forced
to invade Japan, they would have found the civilian population trying to repel them with plumhing pipe guns, bamboo bazooxas, explosive arrows and mediaeval crossbows, according to data collected hy Army ordnance experts. Other home front weapons included basehall hats, bamboo poles with knives lashed thereto, clroppers, rifles, pi^tols made by mounting old pipes on woodepi stocks, and gfenade throwers made from: sheet metal, wood and bambqo reinforced with wire. "When the grenades ran out the Japanese proposed to put any jagged material haiidy in the thrower's harrel.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 August 1946, Page 5
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