My Type 95 NCO Collection

[Bruce Pennington]

If you haven't already read them, I highly recommend reading through

Ohmura's Type 95 pages - Non-commissioned Officers Type 95 Gunto

Nick Komiya's - Evolution of the Type 95

Stu W's - IJA Type 95 Sword Info

and the NMB thread - Fake Type 95 NCO Swords

 

I tried to collect a fair representation of the various versions of the 95.  I now have 8.  I know a couple of guys that did that and wound up with 50 and 80! Ha!

 

I'll start with some overall pics.  As I began preparing for this post, I realized that many of my photos were taken back when I hardly knew anything about WWII swords, and certainly knew very little about how to take pictures of them.  Consequently, I'm going to take some time to get some good shots of them all and post as I go.

 

To begin, here are the 8, 4 Korkura/Tokyo 1st and 4 Nagoya

 

More to follow as I get good close-us!