soldiers of the The Katayama Detachment from the IJA 2nd Division armed with a type 11 light machine gun and arisaka rifle inside a trench during skirmishes with soviet troops on September 1939 after the Battle of Khalkhin Gol in a projected counterattack that was canceled when a cease fire was signed. 



desert trench 

soldiers of the The Katayama Detachment from the IJA 2nd Division armed with a mauser pistol and arisaka rifles inside trench during skirmishes with soviet troops on September 1939 after the Battle of Khalkhin Gol in a projected counterattack that was canceled when a cease fire was signed.

desert trench

japanese soldiers with a ZB vz 26 Light Machine Gun