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Hi all, Here is another very interesting manual titled OS 9-61 Foreign Material Vol.3. It was produced by the Ordnance School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, July 1943 This is a very comprehensive manual with in depth detailing of various German and Japanese Fire Control Instruments and some German...

Imperial Japanese Army Goniometer (測角器) used to fix survey points for artillery fire control

Imperial Japanese Army Goniometer (測角器) used to fix survey points for artillery fire control

Imperial Japanese Army Type 92 Rangefinder. Used with heavy machine gun and mortar firecontrol

Imperial Japanese Army Type 93 Rangefinder. Complete with case, tripod and adjustment tool. Dated April 1944

Hi, I've just spotted something that would be a really good addition to my collection, *IF* I can ID it as being Japanese.... See the attached pictures. Woefully poorly repainted, but it does show several features that one also typically sees on Japanese projectiles around the 75mm and taller...

Imperial Japanese Army Wire Cutters. This set has fixed handles. Some sets have removable handles for ease of carriage.

Imperial Japanese Army Type 93 Hypsometer, manufactured in March of 1942 by the Yanagi Manufacturing Corporation. Was likely used by Japanese Army Survey Teams for mapping etc.

Imperial Japanese Navy Barometer. Manufactured by - Ogasawara Instrument Manufacturing Works in Meguro, Tokyo in March 1941. This Barometer belonged to Uemura Naval Corps. Captured by Commander S. H. Crawford of HMAS Kanibala

Imperial Japanese Army Field Tracheotomy Kit. Case reads - 野戦気管切開器 and means Field Tracheotomy Device. More precisely it was for field Cricothyroidotomy.

Japanese Navy Cooking Pot, also used by land based garrison navy and Navy Landing Forces.

Japanese Army Tool Roll

Imperial Japanese Army Air Raid Siren. Made by Kanagawa Electric Co., Ltd. at "Hachikai-shi" - a village located just miles west of the city of Nagoya. Dated October, 1934.

Imperial Japanese Army service kit containing oil can and spare brushes for the Generator of the Type 94 Model 6 Radio Transmitter/Transceiver.

Japanese Army Ear Protectors. 護耳器 (Ear protective device) 大 (Large). Used for ear protection against artillery shock waves. There used to be cellophane spread over the screen.

Japanese Navy Clockwork Delay Aerial Burst Tail Bomb Fuze D-2(a). Japanese designation - Type 2 Mark 3 Bomb Fuze Model 2. Used - Mark 3 250 Kg Shrapnel Incendiary Bomb. Explodes 100 - 175 ft altitude. 2 Variations - 50 and 20 sec delays.

Japanese Navy Mechanical Impact Tail Bomb Fuze B-2(a). Japanese designation is Type 99 Number 25 Bomb Tail Arming Mechanism. Used - Type 99 Number 25 S.A.P 250 Kg IJN Bombs. 53 cm high including reach rod