Type 88 75 mm AA gun
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The Type 88 75 mm AA gun was an anti-aircraft gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. The Type 88 number was designated for the year the gun was ac
Type 88 75 mm AA gun at Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo
A battery of Type 88s of the 2nd AA Regiment (IJA 1st Division)
A Type 88 used as coastal artillery on Attu Island in 1943
QF 3-inch 20 cwt
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The QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun became the standard anti-aircraft gun used in the home defence of the United Kingdom against German Zeppelins airships and bombers and on the Western Front in Wo
Type 88 75 mm AA gun
…Bureau of several existing overseas designs, amalgamating some of the best features from each design (especially from the World War I-vintage British Vickers QF 3 inch 20 cwt AA gun) into a new, Japanese design. The Type 88's number was designated for the year the gun was accepted, 2588 in the Japanese imperial year calendar, or…
Aboard HMS Royal Oak in World War I
Guns on 4-wheeled trailers with Vickers Predictor at left, Australia c. 1937
Demonstration of towing on 2-wheeled travelling platform
Demonstration of deployment for action on cruciform travelling platform with wheels removed