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Tim R


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Hello Gentleman


 


I am in search of drawings, and pictures of the attached photos.


I believe them to be a Japanese Type 45 24cm Howitzer Model 1912, can some one confirm this? They were used in the Siege of TsingTao. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


 


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Tim, as far as I'm aware, it is indeed a Type 45 24cm howitzer 1912:

Japanese Artillery - 24cm Howitzer

It comes from this useful page:

Japanese Artillery

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In fact this is the 20-cm heavy howitzer on the 1st photo!

See Japan Wikipedia!
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ru&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fja.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F%E5%9B%9B%E4%BA%94%E5%BC%8F%E4%BA%8C%E5%8D%81%E5%9B%9B%E7%B3%8E%E6%A6%B4%E5%BC%BE%E7%A0%B2



-- Edited by Capitan Print on Monday 9th of March 2015 09:10:36 PM

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Yes the Japanese wiki says the first photo is 20cm howitzer, also named Type 45. Only 10 were built.

There are two Type 45 howitzers on display in the Chinese Military Museum in Beijing, I took some photos of them back in 2010. Will try to dig them out.

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kkfj1 wrote:

Yes the Japanese wiki says the first photo is 20cm howitzer, also named Type 45. Only 10 were built.

There are two Type 45 howitzers on display in the Chinese Military Museum in Beijing, I took some photos of them back in 2010. Will try to dig them out.

 What guns are in Beijing? 20 or 24 cm?



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They are 24cm guns with shields.

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I see.

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If I am right, Chinese Military Museum in Beijing has four guns on exhibition. You can try to search photos of these guns on Panoramio and Flickr. But request should consist of museum name. Also, there is a firing scene from WW2 movie (Windtalkers, I think): http://img9.itiexue.net/1868/18682077.gif (Traffic!)



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Also, there is a firing scene from WW2 movie (Windtalkers, I think): http://img9.itiexue.net/1868/18682077.gif (Traffic!)

 Yes! I find the screenshot! But there were not such a gun on Saipan indeed!

Artillery history of Japan



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Hello all,

Finally digged up my photos of a pair of Type 45s in the Military Museum in Beijing. Sorry some of them is out of focus - I was not used to handle cameras at that time... disbelief



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