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Hi Shinpachi - Thanks so much for your response! It's funny, I was suspicious that the Type 89 designation had to do with the Empire Calendar, and simply coincided with an existing machine gun designation. Thank you for laying that issue to rest for me. Oddly enough, of all the 7.7mm machine...

Hello! I am doing research on a peculiar piece of equipment, a Type 89 machine gun training camera. According to what I've been reading thus far, these cameras were commissioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy to train fighter pilots and waist gunners in a variety of naval aircraft. My main...