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Well, that is the story, and I am sure that after all these years, the teller believes it, but Japanese rifles with the crest ground were taken out of depots in Japan, where the crest had been ground by Japanese before the rifles were turned over to the former enemy.
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My Dad brought back rifles from Japan, Feb 46. These rifles were surrender rifles and had been collected and were on some island in Tokyo bay. He had been told the Japanese ground the crests.
The gentleman, Sammy, who had his rifles crests ground in San Pedro, I found that story from him after I told him of a Japanese Paratrooper rifle, a very rare rifle which the barrel unscrews from the receiver, at our Club Range. I mentioned that it had the crest. Sammy then said "how did he get that rifle in?" And that is how I got Sammy to tell me about his experience.
The past is very complicated, and people make up memories, but I believe Sammy.
And I have handled his rifles. Crests were ground.