[curly1]

Japanese mechanical lead computing sight mounted on a Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft gun; seen in US Army handbook TM-E 30-480; photo 2 of 2 ww2dbase

 

[curly1]

 

[Tempest2]

View attachment 4378118 J8M Shusui aircraft and men of the ground crew at Kashiwa Air Field, Chiba, Japan, 1945

Had to look up the type - very cool.
Mitsubishi J8M - Wikipedia

 

[EOD Guy]

View attachment 4378118 J8M Shusui aircraft and men of the ground crew at Kashiwa Air Field, Chiba, Japan, 1945

Had to look up the type - very cool.
Mitsubishi J8M - Wikipedia
View attachment 4378218

Close copy of the ME-163 Komet, except it’s missing the tiny nose propeller. Wonder if the Japanese moved it somewhere else or put in a different electrical system.

 

[Richard in NY*]

Curly:

In this thread and others you have posted too many photos to count. It takes a great deal of time and effort to find and post these images and Gun Boards is better as a result.

Thank you and my thanks to everyone else who posts these fascinating photos.

 

[curly1]

Thanx Richard! Much appreciated.

 

[curly1]

Japanese Navy pilot Naoshi Kanno's N1K Shiden 21 Kai 343/A15 fighter, Japan, 1945 ww2dbase

 

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Japanese Navy pilot Tetsuzo Iwamoto, circa 1945 ww2dbase

 

[curly1]

Japanese Navy Type 93 or Japanese Army Type Ho twin 13mm heavy machine gun, seen in US Technical Manual TM-E 30-480: Handbook on Japanese Military Forces ww2dbase

 

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Japanese Navy Type 99 Mark 1 (top) and Type 99 Mark 2 (bottom) aircraft machine guns, circa 1945 ww2dbase

 

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Japanese pilots Warrant Officer Yuzaburo Toguchi and Ensign Matsuo Hagiri at Yokosuka Airfield, Japan, 1945; note N1K Shiden-kai and A6M aircraft ww2dbase

 

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Japanese Type 97 grenade as seen in US Army technical manual TM-E 30-480 ww2dbase

 

[curly1]

Japanese-built Ki-48 light bomber in Chinese Nationalist service, circa 1940s ww2dbase

 

[curly1]

Kaiten submarines mounted on top of another submarine, late 1944 or early 1945 ww2dbase

 

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Ki-102 aircraft in flight, 1944-1945 ww2dbase

 

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Ki-147 I-Go-1 Ko experimental anti-ship missile mounted under a Ki-67 Hiryu bomber, date unknown ww2dbase

 

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Ki-51 aircraft at rest at an airfield, date unknown ww2dbase

 

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Ki-15 aircraft 'Kamikaze' at rest, Japan, circa 1930s; this aircraft was owned by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper group ww2dbase

 

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Ki-67 aircraft of 74th Air Combat Group at rest, Matsumoto Airfield, Japan, 1945 ww2dbase

 

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Ki-79 and Ki-55 aircraft at rest near Mukden, Liaoning Province, China, circa 1940s ww2dbase