Original WWII Japanese Army Officer P-1944 Type 3 Rinji Seikishi Shin-Gunto Katana Sword with Scabbard Multi Nation Flags The gun went into service

The gun went into service in 1944 and was used well into the 1950s

Detachment A-13

and commissioned at Philadelphia

with the interlocking TN over the swas

Original WWII Japanese Army Officer P-1944 Type 3 Rinji Seikishi Shin-Gunto Katana Sword with Scabbard Multi Nation Flags The gun went into serviceOriginal Item: Only One Available. Purchased recently at a large military auction, this is a very nice late war style mid grade Japanese officer Katana, with an arsenal made blade. It is in the standard 1944 pattern fittings, offically known as the (Rinji Seikishi) or "Special Contingency" version of the Type 98 Shin Gunto ( kyhachi shiki gunt) setting, sometimes called the "Type 3". These fittings, while often called the P 1944, were in fact designed