| Item title: | Functioning of the Type 3, 8 cm mortar |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 5/37) View information about obtaining a copy of this document |
AJRP details | |
| AJRP module: | Australian War Memorial official records |
| AJRP series: | Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) publications |
| AJRP sub-series: | ATIS enemy publications |
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Location details | |
| Institution: | Australian War Memorial |
| Call number: | AWM55 5/37 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 5/- |
| Item: | EP-417 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 15 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Instruction manual |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 13/10/1945 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | MILITARY INSTRUCTION MANUAL, TECHNICAL MANUALS, MORTARS, AMMUNITION |
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| Japanese unit names: | Kitai Unit Tateyama Naval Gunnery School Laboratory |
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| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Albay Gulf [Philippines, Luzon] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) translation of a Japanese publication captured at Albay, Luzon, on 8 April 1945 during the Allied campaign to recapture the Philippines. This item is an instruction manual entitled "Functioning of the Type 3, 8 cm mortar", issued by the Tateyama Naval Gunnery School Laboratory (undated). It was extracted from a file entitled "Reference for artillery units", dated November 1944 and held by Kitai Unit. It contains information on construction, ammunition (experimental incendiary shells, barrage shells, illuminating shells and experimental marker shells), and sketches of the mortar, fuses and shells. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:02:01 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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