| Caption | Japanese Type 91 40mm anti-aircraft gun at Munda Point, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Aug 1943 ww2dbase | ||||||||
| Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Marine Corps | ||||||||
| Identification Code | 69975 | ||||||||
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| Added By | C. Peter Chen | ||||||||
| Added Date | 15 Jul 2011 | ||||||||
| Licensing | Public Domain. According to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government". |
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20 Sep 2019 03:25:07 PM
This is not a 25mm aa but a 40mm vickers pom pom that the Japanese used before the 25mm. Very interesting to see this dual barrel model on the ground. You can tell because it is belt fed from the sides while the 25mm used magazines fed from the top