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Lindner, Foreign Propellants. Evaluation of Some German and Japanese Rocket Propellants Used in World War II , PATR 1817 (1951)... 

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... 

Kubota, N., Nitramine Propellants for Rockets and Guns , Japanese Patent No. 60-177452, Aug. 12th, 1985. 

Perhaps the most extreme gunpowder rockets are the Japanese Ascending Dragon or RYUSEI Skyrockets which are launched in Japan on 10th October in celebration of Health Sports Day. 

The Japanese RYUSEI rockets represent a cultural tradition. However, the technology involved in achieving the timing of the effects is said to remain the secret of each RYUSEI group, as is much of the construction. 

ROCKET (or Roketto) (Funshindan) or Rocket Ammunition Raketto Danyaku) can be defined as any self-propelled, unguided missile which is fired from a device called a launcher, as was Ger Faustpatrone, Russian Katiusha or Amer Bazooka. Japanese launchers are briefly described here under ROCKET LAUNCHERS. Each Rocket Missile carried its own propeller... 

These devices are described in Ref 2, pp 120—21, Fig 91), under the title Type 3 and Model 10 Bomb Launching Devices . The description includes the compn of proplnt used in Rocket Mortar as NC 65, NG 30, Et Centralite 3.0 NaCl 2.0%. It was code-designated by the Japanese as 343 DT2 and was ignited by an electric squib... 

The powder was in the form of tubes about 4 cm dia. and about 1 m long. Japanese 10-20 cm rockets were loaded with powder consisting of ... 

Fuzes, Rockets, Land Mines, Grenades and Igniters),Dept of the Army Tech Manual TM 9-1985-2(1953) 76)Anon, "German Explosive Ordnance (Projectiles and Projectile Fuzes), TM 9-1985-3(1953) 77)Anon, "Japanese Explosive Ordnance 1 (Bombs,... 

Identification of TNAns when in mixt with HNDPhA, such as was encountered in the Japanese 45 mm rocket was done at PicArsn by Weissberger(Ref 2) as follows ... 

Baka(Suici< e) Bomb or Kamikaze(The name Baka, meaning stupid, was given by Americans). It was a piloted rocket-propelled bomb used by the Japanese Navy during WWII. It could be launched from any twin-engined plane at a distance of 20-30 miles from the target. Its over-all length was 19 10", wing spread of 16 5" wt 4000, inclusive of a 2645-lb warhead in the nose. It had a down-speed of around 550 mph. 

An efiedt that is always beautiful, is easily produced, is perfectly safe under all circumAances and is susceptible of an infinite variety of uses is the Japanese or lampblack Aar. The well known Willow Tree rockets and shells are made with U and it may be used as garniture for colored rockets mines etc. An unusual fullness is given to any article to which a small quantity of Jap. Aar is added. 

In You Only Live Twice, Asian women were featured for the first time with beautiful Japanese actresses Akiko Wakabayashi and Mie Hama playing opposite 007. Bond is made up to look Japanese and assumes the role of the husband to Kissy, who in reality is a Japanese secret agent there to help Bond find the hidden SPECTRE rocket base. Q supplies Little Nellie, a gyro-copter with built-in offensive and defensive weapons used by Bond in a successful aerial battle with SPECTRE helicopters. Incidentally, the screenwriter on this film was Roald Dahl Yes, that Roald Dahl. 

Hill 89, the last major strongpoint of southern Okinawa and headquarters of the Japanese 3 2d Army, was attacked by the 7th Division on 20 June 1945. Here again was almost unbelievably difficult terrain cut up by natural caves, tunnels, and crevices. For weeks the area had. been systematically pounded by naval gunfire, long-range artillery, rockets, and aerial bombing. A number of Japanese surrendered but many others fought to the bitter end. 

The Germans employed DM as a filling for base ejection and HE shells, candles, and bombs and DA solution as a filling for rockets. The Japanese relied upon another arsenical vomiting gas, diphenylcyanoarsine (DC), as a filling for mortar shells, artillery shells, and candles. ... 

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