Original Imperial Japanese Army WWII Kwantung Army Dog Tag - Unit 5837 No. 101 MG 34 Ammo Storage It is maker marked 65

It is maker marked 65 on the clip stem

but only on flight suits during inflight operations

Army had no other tool for the job until the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon in the mid-1980s

though both the bayonet and scabbard do show wear from decades of service

(Medal #246420

Original Imperial Japanese Army WWII Kwantung Army Dog Tag - Unit 5837 No. 101 MG 34 Ammo Storage It is maker marked 65Original Item: Only One Available. This is a lovely patinated and partly legible Japanese WWII brass dog tag, which looks to be from the 13th Mortar Battalion, Soldier Ta 28. Imperial Japanese Army dog tags were first introduced on 22 June, 1894 by Army Ordinance No. 63 as Specifications and Issuing Procedures for ID tags, immediately before the Sino Japanese War, which broke out only a month later. The format and information on Japanese dog tags was