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Japanese sword

Accession Number NWHRM : 2740

Description

Japanese Sergeant Major's sword, captured in Burma 1944

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This long fighting sword is called a ‘Katana’. Many blades like this one were factory made between 1939-45. Ancestral blades were also re-hilted and given simpler scabbards.

Department Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum
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