China Incident

[Ardee]

Just guessing - to me it looks like a 20mm gun? The only one of those that I can think of which uses the type of magazine depicted would be the Japanese Type 98. I am not, however, well-versed in AA guns. See http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/jp_type98/index.html for an image....

[tom!]

Hi.

Thats not a type 98 aa-gun.

I think it´s an early Oerlikon 20 mm a-gun. This unique ammunition box with the grip was used with this guns.

Yours

tom!

[Brady]

What has been sugested on another form is that it is:

German 2CM Becker AA gun from WWI, or a very early SEMAG/Oerlikon variant of the M/23,

Checking reveals that it is likely the later.

[Peter H]

The Becker in German service WW1:

viewtopic.php?f=27&t=43249&p=386489

Most likely old stock was passed onto the Chinese.

[Arek]

Is it anywere accesible on-line, the archives of Nichi Nichi or other widely read, in 1930s, japanese press titles?

[Akira Takizawa]

Is it anywere accesible on-line, the archives of Nichi Nichi or other widely read, in 1930s, japanese press titles?

"Nichi Nichi" will be Tokyo Nichinichi. Tokyo Nichinichi is now Mainichi. Their archives can be accessed only in Japanese.

http://mainichi.jp/contents/person/02.html

Taki

[Peter H]

Art work.

Marco Polo Bridge

[Peter H]

Nanking

[Peter H]

Water crossing

[Peter H]

Arrival

[Peter H]

Tank attack

[Peter H]

Sappers

[Peter H]

Collaborationist Chinese troops

[Peter H]

Large town

[Peter H]

Cavalry