Rikugun

Volume 2 - Weapons of the Imperial Japanese Army & Navy Ground Forces

Leland Ness

• Publisher: Helion and Company
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781912174584
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World War II
• Index: History

"Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945" is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as primary sources. This second volume covers the armament of the ground forces. It takes advantage not only of postwar Japanese research, but also the extensive technical intelligence efforts of the Allies near the end of the war, and the postwar investigations that have heretofore generally been ignored to provide a complete examination of wartime Japanese armament. The book is divided into twenty-three sections covering all categories including not only the standard arms, such as machine guns and coast artillery, but also more esoteric items such as bridging, chemical weapons and assault equipment. Each section provides both production and technical data, as well as a discussion of the unique characteristics of each weapon and its place in the force structure, accompanied by over 300 photographs and numerous data tables.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 Submachine Guns
• 2 Rifles & Grenade Launchers
• 3 Machine Guns
• 4 Grenade Dischargers
• 5 Assault Weapons
• 6 Mortars
• 7 Anti-Tank Weapons
• 8 Infantry Guns
• 9 Pack Artillery
• 10 Light Artillery
• 11 Medium Artillery
• 12 Heavy Artillery
• 13 Artillery Rockets
• 14 Light Anti-Aircraft Guns
• 15 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Guns
• 16 Anti-Aircraft Devices
• 17 Anti-Aircraft Detection
• 18 Coast Artillery
• 19 Armored Vehicles
• 20 Chemical Warfare Equipment
• 21 Mine Warfare Equipment
• 22 River Crossing Equipment
• 23 Signal Equipment
• Notes on Sources
• Acknowledgements