Original Japanese WWII Silk Senninbari 1000 Stitch Belt with Rising Sun, Kanji, Temple Prayer - 44" x 7" French Machine Guns powered by a liquid-propellant rocket

powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine

which is still present and fully functional

and the original plating almost fully intact

Massive World War II production left the Mk 2 as limited standard issue with the US Army and US Marines throughout the 1960s and the US Navy until the 1970s

some Imperial German troops were equipped with almost identical swords into the First World War

Original Japanese WWII Silk Senninbari 1000 Stitch Belt with Rising Sun, Kanji, Temple Prayer - 44" x 7" French Machine Guns powered by a liquid-propellant rocketOriginal Item: One of a kind. A Senninbari ( thousand person stitches) or One thousand stitch is a strip of cloth that measures approximately 15 cm (6 in) high and up to 90120 cm (34 ft) or more in length. Each end of the belt (sash) may or may not have strings, snaps or buttons that allow it to be fastened about the waist. Examples that lack these were often tucked into the waist. Other variations were never worn but may have been folded and placed