Marine airmen with captured North Korean weaponry, c. September or October 1950. [6399×5029] Note the sword! Are there any recorded instances of the North Koreans/Chinese using swords against UN forces?
I’m gonna go ahead and say no. That sword is probably a bi-product of Japanese occupation..
repete66219
Some of the soldiers for the North didn’t have shoes in the winter, so I am not surprised to see a sword. That said, it could have been a ceremonial sword found in a base that was never intended for use during battle.
machinerer
Maxim M1910, PPSh-41, and Mosin-Nagant M44 it looks like to me. Soviets were supplying all of their communist insurgents around the world with leftover obsolete arms from WWII.
Major-Oopseedayzee
I’m gonna go ahead and say no. That sword is probably a bi-product of Japanese occupation..
repete66219
Some of the soldiers for the North didn’t have shoes in the winter, so I am not surprised to see a sword. That said, it could have been a ceremonial sword found in a base that was never intended for use during battle.
machinerer
Maxim M1910, PPSh-41, and Mosin-Nagant M44 it looks like to me. Soviets were supplying all of their communist insurgents around the world with leftover obsolete arms from WWII.