| My grandfather has a bring back from the Phillipines while he was a BAR gunner with the 40th ID. It is a model 1934 Mauser pistol in .32 ACP. He took it off of a Japanese officer. My thinking is along the lines of Japans small manufacturing capability and I imagine in the pre war and early war period Germany shipped/sold outdated weapons to Japan to make up for the shortage of Japanese made weapons and there inevitably found their way into general issue. Oddly enough the Mauser was being carried by the Japanese officer in a Polish Radom holster, which my grandfather still has so I imagine all the weapons the German armed forces captured that they weren't using could have been sent to its allies. | 
01-24-2009
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