Help With Manchukuo Photo - Ranks
Article about: The attached photo was listed as being of Manchukuo officers, but I noticed their gunto are Type32 and Type 95 which are both NCO gunto. I've also checked the attached charts, and though the
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Any enlisted rank with the stripe in the middle of the tab is going to be a NCO. Officers will have the yellow/gold on the edges and other ranks have no stripes at all.
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And I don't see any yellow stripes along the edges. I think they're NCO's.
It was a significant question for me because if they were officers, as the source stated, they're all carrying NCO gunto. Which would raise the obvious question "WHY?" But I think the source was wrong. I have seen this before, where an author doesn't understand the difference between officer and NCO. I have a book by the Kapps & Yoshihara, "Modern Japanese swords and Swordsmiths, From 1868 to the Present", where they cite production numbers. They call lump officer and NCO together calling them "officers". Maybe this is the case in the source of this picture.
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Army officers carrying a Type 95 NCO sword was legitimate practice from December 1941, so there is nothing strange about that itself. See here
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Exactly! And that's the other side of my pursuit of this image - It would be the first picture (to my knowledge) of the practice! Either way, it's a great picture, but it would be fabulous to have a picture of officers with NCO gunto to go along with the discussion of the shortages.
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Last edited by Kiipu; 05-28-2020 at 09:50 PM.
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