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Letters from Iwo Jima
The following guns were used in the movie Letters from Iwo Jima
The following guns were used by the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Contents
M1911 Handgun
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) had an original Colt M1911 pistol offered by an American Officer when he was in the United States. By the end of the movie, he killed himself with this weapon. Then, a U.S. Marine found the pistol and took it. On a side note, the 1911 model in this movie had an ivory grip.
Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun
Used by many japanese soldiers in bunkers and caves.
Type 99 Arisaka Rifle
Most of the Imperial Japanese soldiers in the movie are equipped with this rifle.
Type 94 pistol
Shimizu (Ryo Kase) and other Japanese soldiers had this pistol.
Nambu Type 14 Pistol
Baby Nambu
Captain Tanida (Takumi Bando) used a Baby Nambu pistol to kill himself.
Type 99 Light Machine Gun
Used by many japanese soldiers in bukers and caves.
United States Marine Corps Weapons
The following guns were used by the United States Marine Corps
M1 Garand
Many marines were equipped with this weapons (some of them were used with M1 bayonets). When Shimizu (Ryo Kase) surrender, a marine, using his M1 Garand rifle, executed him and an another japanese POW. In the final scene, when Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya) was surrounded by marines, most of them used M1 Garand rifles.
M1 Carbine
In the last scene, the U.S. Marine lieutenant who took the M1911 pistol of General Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) had a M1 Carbine.
M2 Flamethrower
Sam (Lucas Elliott) had a M2 Flamethrower until he was captured. During the landing, two japanese soldiers have been burnt by a M2 Flamethrower.
M1919A4 Browning
During the night assault led by the Navy Lieutnant Ito, American troops used M1919A4 Browning machine guns to counter the japanese charge.
M1903 Springfield
Near the end of the movie, when Lieutenant Fujita was going to cut General Kuribayashi's (Ken Watanabe) head (Kuribayashi asked him to), he was suddenly shot. Then, far away, we see a Marine sniper operating a bolt. We cannot see the rifle, but it is pretty sure that it is a M1903A1 Springfield since it was the mainly used bolt action sniper rifle by the Marines (and other US forces) during World War II.
A source from ISS (which supplied the weapons for the film) has confirmed that the rifle was an M1903A1 Springfield fitted with a 7.8x (8x) Unertl scope, and that the Marine sniper using the weapon was one of the film's technical advisors, Master Sergeant Tom Minder.
