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Post by Karl Welteke on Dec 8, 2017 18:55:02 GMT 8
Japanese Gun in Malico Village on the Villa Verde Trail. Who can indentify it as to what type, caliber etc. Za469. Small Japanese artillery piece in Malico Village. -About 3 meters up a concrete stairway, next, left of the museum, is this small Japanese artillery piece. I certainly was interested to have closer looks. This gun is part of a private museum in the Barangay (Village) Malico; it is located on the plateau of the Salacsac Passes, on top or in the middle of the Villa Verde Trail between San Nicolas, Pangasinan and Santa Fe, Nueva Viscaya. I explored this area because of the WWII Battle of the Villa Verde Trail. I thought this is an interesting find and like to share this find. The owner of the museum was not in town but I was able to have a close look at the gun. A person tried many keys but could not open the door lock to the museum. But I suspect the inside items of the museum are dedicated to native art. Za470. Japanese gun indentifying markings. Here is a close up of the Japanese gun indentifying markings. Za471. Location of the Japanese gun in Malico Village A Google Earth image that shows the location of the Salacsac Passes, the Barangay (Village) Malico, the Villa Verde Trail and the Malico Museum. I have uploaded 12 images at the original high resolution into this Flickr album: www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/albums/72157690093461134Later I will establish a more complete album about this museum in Photobucket and will present it also in the Villa Verde Trail forum thread.
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Post by roland1369 on Dec 9, 2017 0:49:58 GMT 8
Karl, it is a 75 mm type 94 mountain gun with the barrel pulled back into almost partial recoil and missing the split trails.
The crazy ex paratrooper you met a the 2013 CDSG tour.
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Post by roland1369 on Dec 9, 2017 11:01:02 GMT 8
Karl, I was way off on my previous ID. I assumed that the barrel is intact and measures 75 MM. If as I now suspect the bore measures out to around 47 to 50 MM this is the remains of a 47 MM type 1 AT gun with the barrel cut off, the trails removed and non standard wooden wheels attached. I am going on the two swept back plates on each side of the barrel, the remains of the elevating mechanism which crosses the barrel and the shape of the breechblock.
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Post by armyjunk on Dec 10, 2017 22:33:05 GMT 8
Hi Karl........... Model 94 (1934) 37mm Gun, notice 3 identical points
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Post by roland1369 on Dec 11, 2017 11:33:41 GMT 8
I would have to give it to you Rodger, you win the prize. I looked at the 37 MM but rejected it. Getting very rusty on my technical intelligence skills. Karl, when finding objects such as this an approximate bore size and scale are important. When I was on active duty I always laid an object of known dimensions next to the object being photographed. Not necessarily a ruler, I used a standard Swiss army knife, which I carried but any standard object will do.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2018 4:18:47 GMT 8
Type 94 37mm anti-tank gun
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Post by robert2010 on Jan 29, 2019 5:43:38 GMT 8
There are some nice American and Japanese weapons including artillery, along with a good museum, at Mt. Samat memorial.
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