"Takeichi Nishi, of Japan, was an army lieutenant when he won the Olympic title in Los Angeles (1932)and made many American friends, among them the actor Douglas Fairbanks. Then came Pearl Harbor. Nishi was promoted to Japanese colonel in the Second World War and when the US forces reached Iwo Jima Island, he joined a mass suicide."
Good example of how a Japanese officer would have had the opportunity to obtain a US firearm for personal use, I'm sure there were more here prior to WWII. Must have also been in Germany too.
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