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Imperial Japan’s Type 11 Was World War II’s Worst Machine Gun
The Type 11, named after the eleventh year of the reign of Emperor Taishō, or 1922, was modeled after the French Hotchkiss air-cooled, gas-operated heavy machine gun.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Despite the introduction of those superior weapons the Japanese Imperial Army and Special Naval Landing Forces continued to rely on the Type 11 until the end of war. Captured Type 11 machine guns were also used by both sides in the Chinese Civil War, while North Korea, the Viet Minh, and the Viet Cong all used the weapon in limited capacity.
Posted on February 8th, 2021
by Senaka Weeraratna
Time to re – write our history books
August 15 is the day Japan commemorates the war’s end. Soon it will be 70 years after that day in 1945 when two Atomic Bombs dropped from American planes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki forced Japan to surrender. Japan lost to foes enjoying overwhelming superiority in both numbers and material. Nevertheless Japan’s entry to war in 1941 was not without significant consequences for the rest of Asia. It had redeeming features. Within a few years of Japan’s surrender in 1945 a host of leading Asian countries achieved independence from western colonial domination after centuries of abject rule. Japan’s legacy is that the people in Asia are now free.
Colonial-era Murray House’s resurrection in Hong Kong 20 years on: heritage expert still sceptical, Stanley villagers happy it draws visitors
Twenty years ago Murray House – built in 1840s Central as a British officers’ garrison, then dismantled – was, like a giant 3D jigsaw, reassembled in Stanley
Villagers worried about feng shui and its spooky reputation from wartime use as a Japanese torture centre, but value its appeal to tourists, who spend locally