WEIRD ASSORTMENT
JAPAN’S CIVILIAN WEAPONS
WASHINGTON. (Rec. 9 p.m.) Aug. 30. If the Americans had been forced to invade Japan they would have found the civilian population trying to repel them with plumbing pipe guns, bamboo bazookas, explosive arrows, and mediaeval crossbows, according to data collected by army ordnance experts.
Other home-front weapons included baseball bats, bamboo poles with knives lashed to them, choppers, rifles and pistols made by mounting old pipes on wooden stocks and attaching a single-shot bolt and home-made trigger, grenade throwers made from sheet metal, wood and bamboo reinforced with wire. When the grenades ran out the Japanese proposed to put any jagged material handy in the throwers’ barrel.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26245, 31 August 1946, Page 7
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