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michael6367


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Hello - I have attached a photo below that I came across while building another page on my site. The photo is a close up of the breech of an Austro-Hungarian 77mm thats located in the town of Millburn - New Jersey. The only markings i could find was a number - 1652 ?  and these "asian characters". I have no idea what they say or mean or how they got on a Hungarian weapon but was interested in what anyone thought. A full picture of the gun is located on my doughboys site.

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28juni14


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Hello Michael,

Krupp sold a number of field guns abroad.  As I"ve mentioned numberous times on this forum,  they enjoyed a lucrative business after the Franco-Prussian War.   Krupp was perceived as superior artillery producers.   The Japanese were no exception; they purchased some samples of the Model 02/05 after their war with Russia, and produced it under licence.    It became to primary medium gun of the Japanese army in WW2.  Chances are,  this is a Japanese 75mm Type 38,  a number of found their way to Legion Parks around the USA.

Incidently mainstay Austrian field guns were termed 8cm;  not 7,7cm.

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The words reads "Type 38 field gun".
I'm sure this gun isn't a WWI one. It's the Japanese 7.5cm type 38 field gun, one of the common Japanese guns in WWII. This kind of guns were widely used in China and some other areas in WWII.

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Is this gun, in CFB Borden Museum, the same Type 38? Or is it something different? And again, does anyone know what the Japanese characters say?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7700258@N05/3513460764/sizes/o/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/7700258@N05/3512651857/sizes/o/in/photostream/

I have placed it in the same set as the Type 41 Mountain Gun, on display in the War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario. But I am more than certain that that is not the correct set for it.

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Yes,  UncleanCreature,  your pic is a Type 38.   This Japanese manufactured version of the original off-the-shelf Krupp offering,  differs only cosmetically; primarily in the reduced height of the splinter shield. 

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Thanks for the replies. The explanations make sense. When I first saw this gun I actually thought it looked somewhat like a few of the Japanese WWII era guns that ive seen in a couple US museums but for some reason I got hung up it being an Autrian WW1 gun. I thought it kind of looked an Austrian gun that I saw in one of my books. When I post my pics I am always up for somebody shedding more light on something and Ive received a few informative e-mails and postings which I always appreciate.

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There were at least two kinds of guns called "Type 38" in Japanese army, one was 7.5cm field gun, and another one was a kind of 15cm heavy gun.

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