KATANA-"SHIN GUNTO" (japanese military sword)

The katana "shin gunto" traditional military sword in japanese army, was given to officers to  remember samurais history. Kamikazes or navy officers had too a katana during the war nomarly done in a poor quality but  some of them used  old traditional katanas given by their families from fathers to sons  .After the war us troops had the order of requise all katanas and hundreds of them were destroyed but a important quantity arrived to USA by american soldiers.