Yesterday's Enemy

Yesterday's Enemy Film poster Country UK Directed by Val Guest Release Date 1959 Studio Hammer Film Productions Distributor Columbia Pictures Main Cast Character Actor Captain Langford Stanley Baker Padre Guy Rolfe Sgt. McKenzie Gordon Jackson Max Leo McKern 2nd Lt. Hastings Richard Pasco Maj. Yamazaki Philip Ahn Informer Wolfe Morris

The following weapons were used in the film Yesterday's Enemy:

Handguns

Enfield No.2

British officers armed with the Enfield No.2 revolvers

Enfield No. 2 Mk I. Original configuration with spurred hammer - .38 S&W

Captain Langford aims his Enfield No.2 at an informer

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Nambu Type 14

Imperial Japanese officers use the Nambu Type 14 pistols

Late Nambu Type 14 - 8x22mm Nambu

Maj. Yamazaki holds a Nambu Type 14

Sub Machine Guns

M1928/M1928A1 Thompson

British officers and sergeants use the M1928A1 Thompson and M1928 submachine guns with 20 round magazines. Some Japanese soldiers also use captured Thompson submachine guns.

M1928A1 Thompson with 50-round drum magazine - .45 ACP

Captain Langford holds his M1928A1 Thompson

Captain Langford aims his M1928A1 Thompson at approaching enemies

M1928 "Tommy Gun" with 50-round drum magazine - .45 ACPP

British sergeant holds the M1928 Thompson with a vertical foregrip

MP40

Some Japanese use the MP40 submachine guns. It's not historically correct. These submachine guns weren't used by the Japanese army

MP40 submachine gun - 9x19mm

Sten Mk II

During first shootout in Burmese village a Sten Mk II can be seen used by Japanese soldiers

Sten Mk II - 9x19mm

A Sten Mk II in the window

Rifles

Lee-Enfield No.1 MkIII Rifle

Lee-Enfield No.1 MkIII Rifles are the mainstay weapon of the British soldiers

No.1 MkIII Enfield Rifle - .303 British

British soldiers ready to fire their SMLE rifles at approaching enemies

Arisaka Type 38

The Imperial Japanese soldiers use the Arisaka Type 38 rifles

Arisaka Type 38 rifle - 6.5x50mm Arisaka

Japanese soldier armed with the Arisaka Type 38

A firing squad ready to fire

Machine Guns

Bren gun

Bren guns are used by British soldiers.

Bren Mk1 - .303 caliber

The Bren gun at a background

Chatellerault M 24/29

The Imperial Japanese soldiers use Chatellerault M1924/29 light machine guns. Actually these machine guns weren't used by the Japanese army and probably it's just an attempt to represent these machine guns as Type 96 Light Machine Guns.

Chatellerault M1924/29 Light Machine Gun - 7.5x54mm R

Type 96 Light Machine Gun (minus magazine) - 6.5x50mm Arisaka

Japanese soldiers carry the Chatellerault FM 24/29 machine guns

Japanese soldiers in ambush with Chatellerault FM 24/29 machine gun