Japanese Army

Japanese Army Projectile Base-Detonating Fuzes ... 

Japanese Army Tail Bomb Fuzes, pp 137-44 151-53 [Type 12-Year instantaneous fuze B-l(a), Type 1 15-second delay fuze B-l(b), Type 92 instantaneous fuze B-4(a), Types B-5(a), B-7(a) and B-8(a)]... 

Accdg to OPNAV 30-3M (1945) (Ref 1, p 123), Japanese Army Ammunition of WWII was divided into the following groups ... 

The following Items of Japanese Army, Ammunition are described, including illustrations, in TM 9-1985-5 (1953) (Ref 3, pages indicated under each item) ... 

Accdg to TM 9-1985-4 (1953) (Ref 2, p 1), the Japanese Army (Rikugun) and Navy (Kaigun) had during WWII separate Air Forces (Kugun), each of which employed its own distinct bombs and fuzes (Shinkan). For the most part the Army and Navy bombs and fuzes cannot be used interchangeably. Special adapters have been developed, however, which allowed.some flexibility of this rule... 

A shorter description, with illustrations, of Japanese Army Bombs is given in Ref 1, pp 66-80... 

Carlit. Accdg to a Pamphlet of The Japan Carlit Co, Ltd , located before WWII at Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Carlit was invented in 1917 by O. Carlson and manufd in Japan since 1919. It was an Amm Perchlorate expl contg ferrosilicon woodmeal. It was used in the same way and for the same purposes as Dynamites. Properties of Carlit are described in the Pamphlet In Vol 2 of Encycl, p C68 is described a Japanese Army expl Carlit ox Karitto consisting of Amm Perchlorate 66, Si carbide 16, woodpulp... 

FLARES (Shomei) and Flare Bombs (Shomeidan) The following Japanese Army Flares (excluding Parachute Types) are described in Ref 1, pp 238—43 ... 

Accdg to Ref 1, p 88 and Ref 2, p 190, Japanese Army Fuzes utilized a characteristic type of Gaine which differed greatly from that used in Navy Fuzes. Gaines used in Army Bombs are shown in Fig 107, p 88 of Ref 1 and in Fig 138 of Ref 2. They were of brass construction and were screwed into the Fuze. 

Accdg to Refs I R, Japanese Rocket Launchers were mostly wooden troughs, others were guide rails and steel barrels (tubes). Launchers were provided with some electric ignition device. The most practical launcher was used by the Japanese Army under the name Type 4 20-cm Rocket Launcher, described in Ref 1, p 204 and shown in Fig 320 on p 206. It consisted fo a metal tube on a mounting permitting fine adjustments in elevation and train. The launcher was in three parts which could easily be disassembled for transportation. A rate of fire of from 1 to 2 rounds per minute could be obtd... 

D) Anon, Soldier s Guide to the Japanese Army , Military Intelligence Service, War Dept, Washington, DC (1944)... 

Japanese Army 7.7mm, semi-rimmed expl round with flat-nosed, gilding-metal jacketed bullet is shown in Fig 12 of Ref... 

It appears that the Japanese Army and Navy used two types of double base powders [33] (Table 186). 

MNT has been used by the Japanese Army in an expl compn called Ennayaka (See in Vol 7, J22-R) along with K chlorate (80) and castor... 

Hideki Shirakawa was born in Tokyo on August 20, 1936. He was the third of five children born to Hatsutarou Shirakawa, a physician, and his wife, Fuyuno Shirakawa. In the first dozen years of his life, Hideki Shirakawa moved frequently with his family, first to the rural city of Takayama, then to the province of Manchu on the Chinese mainland (then recently conquered by the Japanese army), and finally backto Tokyo and Takayama after the end of World War II. As early as junior high school, Shirakawa was thinking about a career in the field of polymers. He wrote an essay in which he expressed a desire to "conduct research on plastics useful for ordinary people."... 

SIPRI, Vol. 1, p. 194 5250th Technical Intelligence Company, The Use of Poison Gas by Imperial Japanese Army in China, 1937-1945 Tokyo TIC (1946). 

Nitrocelluloses (Shokamen), such as described in Vol 2 of Encycl under CELLULOSE, were used in NC Propellants (Shokayaku) or Single-Base Proplnts. See under PROPELLANTS 7350m/sec for cast (Shimose) vs 6900 for TNT Impact Sensitivity by BurMinesApp with 2-kg weight 85cm vs 100 for TNT [AMCP 706-177 (1971), p 288]. Used by the Japanese Army as a press-loaded Booster Charge in Bombs, Shells,... 

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