Okay, it’s actually from 1940, at the Battle of Zaoyang Yichang in central China. Note the funky hopper-fed Type 11 LMG.
Vintage Saturday: Japanese Holdouts on Mars!
Bolt Action Rifles
Book Review: The Siamese Mauser (Banzai Special Project #1)
The Banzai group of Japanese weapon collectors has been around for a long time – they began publishing their newsletter in 1982 (actually, that makes the newsletter older than I am, to some peoples’ chagrin). […]
Semiauto pistol
Type 94 Nambu in Slow Motion
The Type 94 Nambu is a much-maligned pistol used by the Japanese military from 1935-1945. It’s actually a better gun than people give it credit for, but we will address that in a later video. […]
Medium MGs
Vintage Saturday: Type 53
Unrelated to this photo…the Zhejiang Iron Works in China made everything from machine guns to grenades to field glasses – and called everything “Type 77” in commemoration of the Marco Polo Bridge incident of July […]
Maybe the NASA Curiosity rover will find some spent clips from the Type 11. 😉
No man, they’re in my backyard…
I just recently watched Nazis at the Center of the Earth with Jake Busy. I would pay more to see Japanese holdouts on mars.
AMAZING! We were beaten to Mars by a squad of Japanese soldiers in a bamboo rocket. I already knew about their derivations of German rocket and jet fighters, aircraft-carrying submarines, and their attempt to build the a-bomb, but this takes all the cake, pie, and cookies in the bakery.
There, I notified makers of Iron Sky. Happy now?
I have been alerted, thanks 😀
And? Do we have the inspiration for a sequel? 🙂
We’ll see 🙂 I’ve been itching to do a story about mars even before the birth of Iron Sky.
One of the first things we did when we started writing Iron Sky was to browse trough a lot of wwii galleries and saved the most interesting ones into mood board folder. Then when we would get stuck brainstorming we would stare at a slideshow for a while.
Heh neat. I still have yet to see it though.