12 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun
12 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun was a Japanese naval gun and coast defense gun used on destroyers, and torpedo boats of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
Bow gun on Yūnagi, September 1936
3rd Year Type guns used in a coastal defense role.
Two Japanese guns at Fort Siloso - Sentosa Island, Singapore.
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Japanese destroyer Yūnagi (1924)
The Japanese destroyer Yūnagi was one of nine Kamikaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s. During the Pacific War, she participated in the occupation of the Gilbert Islands and the Battle of Wake Island in December 1941 and then the occupations of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in early 1942.
Yūnagi, 5 September 1936