Bayonet
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A bayonet is a knife, dagger, sword, or spike-shaped melee weapon designed to be mounted on the end of the barrel of a rifle, carbine, musket or similar long firearm, allowing the gun to be utilized a
British infantryman in 1941 with a Pattern 1907 bayonet affixed to his Lee–Enfield rifle
Depiction of an early 18th-century Russian infantryman installing a plug bayonet.
Socket of a bayonet, showing triangular cross-section and fluted sides
Early 19th-century offset spiked socket bayonet
Banzai charge
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Banzai charge or Banzai attack is the term that was used by the Allied forces of World War II to refer to Japanese human wave attacks and swarming staged by infantry units. This term came from the Jap
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…the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese were able to use bayonet charges effectively against poorly organized and lightly armed Chinese troops. "Banzai charges" became an accepted military tactic where Japanese forces were able to rout larger Chinese forces routinely. In the early stages of the Pacific War…
Japanese woodcut print depicting an infantry charge in the Russo-Japanese War
The suicidal charge by the forces of Saigō Takamori at the culmination of the Satsuma Rebellion (1877) inspired the nation of Japan to idealize and romanticize death in battle and to consider suicide an honorable final action.
Japanese soldiers honor the Emperor with the shout "Banzai" during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1938).
Dead Imperial Japanese Army soldiers on the sandbar of Alligator Creek on Guadalcanal after being killed by U.S. Marines during the Battle of the Tenaru, August 21, 1942.