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I heard dat some japanese soldiers carried suicide knifes.
Are there any pics of these knifes?

there probaly refering to the tanto knives, which was just a scaled down katana really, the old samurai used to use them to commit seppuku with them. Im sure some soldiers you can from better off backgrounds might have taken one with them

Indeed it were tanto knives but one german firm made copies of an "official" suicide tanto.
Bit officially they weren't made i think

its probaly one of those things to get peoples money, bit like ninja swords, if it gets repeated enough times people believe it, even though its crap

Don't know anymore who made it.
Maybe Hebsacker

Wil search some old german Visier magazins.

Found it.



Kamikaze Tanto - aus der Zeit des 2. Weltkrieges.

Die erste Originalreproduktion eines japanischen Kamikaze-Tantos der japanischen Piloten aus der Zeit des 2.Weltkrieges. Das Original liegt im Nationalmuseum in Tokio.Der Griff und die Holzscheide sind mit Leder überzogen. Klingenlänge 18 cm Gesamtlänge 29 cm

never seen an original tanto look like that and this notion of a kamikaze tanto is just obsurd, so the kamikaze were expected to fly through enemy fighters, anti aircraft fire and hit a moving target while trying to control the plane in a steep dive while stabbing themselves in the stomach, don't think so

So you can see we still can't trust those germans

as Al Murrey would say ''they've been to quiet for to long''

Another fairy tail ?

http://www.knifenetwork.com/forum/showt ... ight=tanto

not a member so i can't see mate, any chance you could copy and paste whats going on, on there?

Here it is.

This guy is telling the same thing that i hear over and over

This a Tanto like knife I made some time ago,the sheath is something like one I saw used by Kamikaze pilots,it can also hang from the neck



All those tanto's you see with button closures on the sheaths.

yep total bollocks

i've seen spoons that are more tanto like than that