Japanese Type 100 Submachine Gun — Too Few and Too Late
Improvements were made to Germanys World War One MP18, creating the MP 28. The Bergmann and Solothurn guns were excellent, but they were quite expensive. This was developed at Nambu Arms in late 1937 and called the Experimental Model 3 submachine gun. A soldier tests captured Type 100 submachine gun in Burma, now called the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, during March 1945. Image: NARA It was introduced in the spring of 1939....