Japanese WW2 Light Machine Guns - In The Movies
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- #ww2 A brief overview of Japanese Light Machine Guns as seen in WW2 movies and Video Games
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Movie/Video Games featured:
Hacksaw Ridge 2016
Izetta The Last Witch 2016
Girls Und Panzer The Movie 2015
Unbroken 2014
Flowers of War 2011
Oba: The Last Samurai 2011
Death and Glory in Changde 2010
The Pacific 2010
Kokoda 2006
Liters from Iwo Jima 2006
Flags of our Fathers 2006
The Great Raid 2005
Windtalkers 2002
The Thin Red Line 1998
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998
Cockpit 1993
Too Late the Hero 1970
Japan’s Longest Day 1967
None But The Brave 1965
Hell to Eternity 1960
Men In War 1957
Halls of Montezuma 1951
Flying Leathernecks 1951
The Thin Man Goes Home 1944
Video Games:
Battlefield 5
World War Heroes
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I'm looking for the title of an older B&W WWII movie where a thrown together squad of American soldiers are left to hold a position (possibly a bridge?) against the advancing Japanese. Pretty much the entire movie takes place in and around the American's foxhole where they endure assault after assault by the Japanese before being killed off one by one. A couple things I remember are one of the Americans isn't who he says he is, and after one assault an American was killed by a Japanese soldier who was playing dead. Sorry, not a lot to go on.
I'm not sure on this one. I'll pin the comment and we will see if anyone can help you out.
I have an answer for you my friend. The movie you're looking for is MGM's Bataan that was made in 1943.
@@davemcg757 Yes, that's it!! You da man! ;-) Big thanks to both you and Johnny!
There's a movie like that called The Steel Helmet, but it's a Korean war film where they defend a temple. There was a North Korean soldier that played dead and hid in the temple to kill off American soldiers. First part of the film is wandering around totally-not-LA Korea, through the woods, and then finally the temple. The main character picks up a kid that follows him around from the beginning to the end.
IDK what your WW2 film is, but it sounds strikingly similar to the Korean War "The Steel Helmet"
It's an okay film with mediocre firefights.
@@paleoph6168 Thanks Paleo I'll check it out!
Unfun Fact: in effect, the Japanese had three 7.7 rounds throughout World War II. The 7.7x58mm Type 99 (rimless) cartridge is different from the earlier 7.7x58mmSR Type 92 cartridge. As stated, the Type 99 machine gun chambered the rimless cartridge, however, the Type 92 heavy machine gun chambers the semi-rimmed round, complicating logistics. Further complicating logistics is the fact that the Japanese Navy’s 7.7x56mmR round is a direct copy of the .303 Enfield. That means, depending on the compositions of forces present and the presence of materiel, the Japanese would have to supply three different types of ammunition, all marked 7.7, all of which were not interchangeable, as well as issuing 6.5x50mmSR ammunition.
No fun fact for this one. I know nothing fun about the Japanese firearms industry.
not to mention beside fighting the Allies the Navy and Army are fighting each other, each of them has their own Air Force and none of them are willing to help each other unless it's urgent, they have their own logistic standard and even their war plan are different, the Navy want to go South while Army want to go West into China and Soviet, it's basically a cold war inside an international war
@@waffle-waffle5416 I’m not sure why you bring up the point that Japan had two separate branch air forces, as America at the time did as well
@@rundownthriftstore All branches argued with each other in all countries. BUT, Japan was on another level (virtually no co-ordination, staff meetings very nearly had fist-fights breaking out). It also meant they used entirely different light AA guns (for example).
@@drewdederer8965 I agree 100%, and I guess I’m just being pedantic but I was confused as to why he mentioned the Japanese Air Force seperation
One thing worth mentioning is that Japan had problems with logistics when it came to ammunition. Japan had at least 4 machine guns that used the 7.7 or the 6.5 Arisaka and they would pair troops rifles that were not interchangeable with the Machine Guns.
Typically the mismatch would be at the battalion or division level, you wouldn't see platoons of infantrymen next to each other with different ammo since that would be too much of a logistical nightmare lol
I kinda figured that would happen.
Was 6.5 really *that* bad to justify what amounted to be - logistical nightmare?
@@liammeech3702 it wasn’t that the 6.5 was a “bad” cartridge, It was that there were three different cases (rimless, rimmed, semi-rimmed) that the 6.5 used. In other words, the cartridges were not interchangeable between guns even though they shared the same chamber. And japan were short on resources to make ammo.
@@griz312 oh OK.
Lol 3 different cartridges - japanese armament boards BTFO'd on that one.
I remember watching The Great Raid showing the liberation of a pow camp by American's and Philippinos. I distinctly remember a Japanese officer picking up a 96/99 and I was impressed that he actually took a magazine pouch I also think he reloaded. Unlike some movies where machine guns never seem to run out of ammo. The Bren in Lock Stock seems to fire an awful lot more than 30 rounds.
its spelled Filipinos.
@@KoolKidCG12 he is an American so that's why how he pronounced it.
oh ok
@@peterramos9564 Actually I'm an Australian and spelt it incorrectly I will not make that mistake again. 🇦🇺👍
i am from the Philippines and the language and the country are spelled different even alan corrected himself
The Type 96 and Type 99 were a more effective light machine guns than the US BAR. The tripod and quick change barrel and top loaded magazine were a great improvement and the guns had a lighter rate of fire that helped control recoil. People forget that most US Marines fought the Pacific campaign with older world war one weapons as the US Army fighting in Europe got all the new equipment first. It wasn't until early 1943 when the Marines were fully out fitted with M1 Garand semiautomatic rifles instead of the bolt action Springfield 1903s they were using. So firepower was actually equal to the Japanese Army at the first two years of the Pacific war. The US Marines didn't even have enough Thompson submachine guns to go around and were issued the M50 Reising submachine gun as a substitute. The M50 was notorious for jamming in sand and mudd so much that the Marines hated them.
Nice insight. 👍
The paratroopers had a different variant of the nambu called type 98/99
Strang fact other countries and armies also fought in the Pacific Asian theatre
Completely biased answer
That is not a quick change barrel, but rather a manufacturing method to speed up production at the cost of interchangeability. Each of the barrel's head spacing was hand fitted to the gun with washers. If you did swap random barrels you dun goofed up.
"lag far behind our own in durability" the Garand was absolutely a better military rifle but not due to durability. The Arisaka's bolt was determined to be extremely strong and the action was least vulnerable to fouling while the M1 Garand was most vulnerable to fouling.
A worthy sacrifice for more firepower but not without sacrifice.
Wasn’t the Arisaka really long compared to the average soldiers height as well?
@@georgespongey127 They loved their bayonet fighting, but a fringe benefit of such a long barrel on the Type-38 rifle is the powder would completely finish burning and cool below the incandescence temperature in the bore so almost no visible muzzle flash. A pretty big deal at night.
The type 99 Arisaka was more conventional in calibre and barrel length.
The UA-cam Channel 9-hole-reviews points out that the Arisaka had sights that were very well suited for medium range snap-shooting. They worked like modern "ghost ring" sights seen on hunting shotguns.
@@Treblaine 9 Hole Reviews is a good channel. 👌
The Type 38 and Type 99 were possibly the most durable service rifles of the war. The M1 Garand would readily jam if dirt or mud got on the external part of the action, even when it was totally closed up.
Bear in mind that a lot of those US weapon familiarization films were utter nonsense, meant to give soldiers confidence in their weapons rather than to inform.
@@georgespongey127i think there are two types of type 99 being long and short but i could be wrong
I was visiting my brother in Montana and while I was there I stopped by the Fort Missoula army museum and got to see a Type 99 LMG with the bayonet attachment up close. They had quite the extensive collection of arms there including a Type 92 HMG, a Type 89 "knee" mortar, and a rack of Arisaka rifles dating from prewar 1906 to 1945. The rifles were fascinating as you could really see the quality of craftsmanship drop as the war continued and supplies got scarce. The last one looked so shoddy I'd be afraid to fire it for fear of it exploding in my hands... If it was even in a condition to fire in the first place.
Makes sense Montana NG fought in the 41st Division in the Pacific
Last ditch arisaka is actually very safe to shoot, the myth that last ditch arisaka explode come American troop mistake training arisaka that can't handle full power round.
@@calmsoul772what?
Same occurred to the "Type 98" shin guntō (the Military sword), between 1938 and the end of the war in 1945.
Late in the war Japan's supply of metal was drying up and shin guntō were produced with painted wooden scabbards, and with cheaper or no brass ornamentation.
Some of the final swords produced in the last year of the war utilized cheap copper or blackened iron fittings.
Seeing “The Cockpit” on here makes me happy. I really like the animation.
The Type 96 and 99 are the only LMGs i know that have bayonet lug
But compared to Bren, i think it still lacks in terms of ruggedness
Bren advantages where notably intuitive operation, ease of maintenance, weight & that it fired further then the average Basic trained troop would be able to aim.
Rugged?
I suppose if you got something in it the part are quiet easy to clean but any fire arm will jam or worse if mistreated.
The only issue the Bren had as the troops complained about nothing but the small 20 & 30 round magazine that would eventually be solved.
Mind the Czech really did the hard ground work.
you could argue the type 96 & 99 are less powerful as they use smaller lower calibre arisaka type 36 cartridge if memory serves. But it is shockingly similar to the Bren which makes sense being from the Czechs LMG
i never got to strip wither type but have seen the 99.
The truly reliable machine gun, which works in all conditions you would throw it in, for me , is the Soviet PKM . For WW2 , it will be the Bren. plus Indian army has favored this gun (Bren) over their LMG version of INSAS as the standard infantry support LMG for very long time when it comes to mountain warfare, because this gun along with FN MAG, AKM and 84mm CG RCL are the only things , who wouldn't give up in the dreaded Himalayan cold.
@@patriotenfield3276 The Bren has it's limitation but can still easily compete today with it's contenders 80years on.
People talk about it's reliability yet have never used it.
It maintenance is what made it favoured as the average troop could be bothered to strip & clean it.
The M42 -MG3 are basically the same gun that replaced the Bren in British service.
The 2 mentioned are a better gun in theory & test conditions with well trained troops.
What people forget is most troops well, 'leave much to be desired':)
The Bren I would argue is better for the common grunt!
@@arnijulian6241 There was an experimental belt fed Bren gun. The X11E4 - didn't work out as it was mechanically unreliable.
Japan was a very formidable force during the 1930's. But much like Italy, they were in the process of rearming their army with updates weapons. But WWII would break out before they could fully accomplish this. Coupled with a lack of resources after being pushed out of China, and the loss of oil from the U.S. They just couldn't stay in the fight. You need to look at the Type 38 and Type 99 next!
Japanese rifles definitely on the menu in the coming weeks
Japanese weapon systems can be broken down into excellent, good and terrible. Aircraft, destroyers, torpedoes, LMG's excellent. AA guns, terrible. Worst of WW2.
how many people thought the type 96 was a Bren gun.
Real
Or was based on thr bren gun
my great grandad was in Burma fighting the Japanese and he told me a story of how instead of surrendering there wounded when they were about to retreat, he saw an officer jump um onto the back of a truck full of wounded and mow them down with a 99 he was the scout of his platoon, so he was always far ahead scoping things out and he saw so much of the non-combat stuff that the other men saw R.I.P Sgt. Stanley M. Sasine 5307th composite unit provisional (Merrills Marauders)
there are a lot of British,indian and American soldiers bodies still found near my town in Myanmar
In the 1980s as a young boy growing up in the Philippines I was told by an old carpenter (he made some of my family's cabinets) how he witnessed the unprecedented barbarity of Japanese soldiers to the Filipinos. When the Americans liberated the Philippines in 1945 most young men like him joined the U.S. Army hoping they would be sent to Japan as assault troops. They swore to payback the atrocities committed by the Japanese by doing 10 times more atrocities to the Japanese civilians effectively wiping out the Japanese people. But the atomic bombs were dropped, Japan surrendered and those young Filipino men did not get the chance to wipe out the Japanese civilians.
Years later he was sent to Korea during the Korean War. He said they spent their R&R in Japan. He got to see Tokyo and even had a Japanese girlfriend. We called that old carpenter Manong Napo. (Manong is equivalent to "Mr." in english. "Napo" was his nickname so his first name must have been Napoleon. I couldn't recall his family name.)
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Weird how you can post on UA-cam because most UA-cam and online anything is blocked by the military government, or power outages they do. My wife can't even reach her sister in Yangon most of the time
@@loveofmangos001 I use vpn. they blocked Facebook but I can still use UA-cam
What the Asia-Pacific war lacked in numbers itmore than made up for in the ferocity of the fighting there. The most obvious similarities were in the racial aspects. Racial hatreds were a salient feature of that war.
The Japanese LGM's were very good. It's too bad for them because they made less than 100,000 of them. In comparison the Germans made over 1,000,000 MG34s and MG42s.
Especially Type-99, but that LMG reached maturity in 1939, at that time most Japan industrial capacity already full with many other projects..
And thus received only barely enough attention.
Well interwar strategies also limited the full potential.
Didn't japan have more colonies than Germany?
@@grandcanyon-d4d they did once they invaded them at the beginning of the Pacific war. Prior to that I don't think they had many. They had Korea and Manchuria, besides that I'm not sure.
@@joshmeads they occupied like quarter of China and they had Taiwan too, they could have had a decent industry from those colonies.
Seeing scenes from "A Thin Man Goes Home" was an unexpected but pleasant surprise. It's a personal favorite of mine, and when I first saw the Type 99 appear in it I burst out laughing. The broad selection of movies used in these videos is always impressive.
Thanks for that David. I really try to expose a variety of films and media to give everyone something new.
Fisrt
On King Of The Hill, That machine gun took off Cotton Hill's shins during the war.
The Type 11 variant mounted in early Japanese tanks was called the Type 91, it had an extended hopper for 9 clips capacity as opposed to the standard 6(so 45 rounds instead of 30), it also features a shorter stock/or in some cases only a grip without stock, an optic mount and armored shield around the barrel (you can see it on the Flowers of War Type 94 Tankettes). It could be attached to an AA mount on most Japanese tanks or like the Soviet DT used outside the tank with a bipod.
Another variant of the Type 11 would be the Type 89 flexible (not to be confused with the Type 89 fixed, which is a belt fed gun found on IJA planes), a 7.7 variant in a dual gun setup for aircraft gunner mounts typically found on bombers with two massive quadrant-shaped mags holding a belt made of rifle clips (look it up it's as insane as it sounds). It was also used on Soukoutei-class armored boats in 2 turrets, if you want to see some pictures for the 89 flexible search for 八九式旋回機関銃.
One thing you missed mentioning on the Type 99 is the increased rate of fire to 850rpm, also the easiest way to tell the 99 apart from the 96 aside from the less curved magazine would be the flash hider added with the 99. Another hint would be the monopod on the stock, which the 96 didn't have.
Bruh, the Type 99 and 96 MGs and the Bren Gun are my favorite ww2 machine guns. They just look perfect for anti air, which is also something I love.
Any machine gun is better than having no machine gun.
The Japanese had some of the best Light Machine Guns in the 1920s-30s but definitely failed to keep up on the arms race when other nations were using belt fed machine guns.
Once again, you hit us with a wonderful scene that is totally spot on but out of left field. Nick, Nora and my favorite movie dog Asta. 😂
You definitely have a lot of movie knowledge. Thanks for keeping my movie queue full.
japan literally reuses the same name for almost everything
Yes! Just to make this project twice as hard for me I think.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq there's two Type 92 machine guns lol, a heavy machine gun and a one for aerial use. There's also the Type 96 light machine gun (the one you talked about), the Type 96 AA gun, and *two* Type 96 howitzers, one 15 cm and one 24 cm. Not to mention the Type 97 sniper rifle, Type 97 aircraft machine gun, Type 97 heavy tank machine gun, and Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank...
And then of course the Type 99 light machine gun (another one you talked about) and Type 99 Arisaka rifle.
Recommendation:
Type 89 Grenade Discharger
Type 100 SMG
SKS Carbine
PKM Machine Gun
Krag Bolt Action Rifle
Nice video, Johnny. Also i see your videos have improved since i subbed to you around a year ago. Too bad you kinda ignore your other channels like Swords and Shields.
Thanks
I want to hear him say Jørgensen 👀
@@latewizard301 Kragg Jørgensen?
The Norwegian bolt action rifle in ww2.
It quiet interesting as the round are pushed down in but dropped side ways in a sort of bracket flap.
I liked it as it felt like the rifle made for the arthritic!
@@arnijulian6241 lol, yeah well I feel it would be harder to releoad as the bullets have to be placed quite precisely as to a guided stripper clip
SKS and Krag are very interesting choices. I can think of one or two movies with a Krag in them, but not really with an SKS. Great little gun that gets no love haha
@@arnijulian6241 The Krag was around before ww1 and was actually adopted by the US before making the Springfield 1903 as a rip off of the mauser action (we actually lost that lawsuit). The Norwegians obviously did adopt the rifle as it was native to them, and I believe the Danish did as well
Do Japanese rifles plz
First
keep the weapons in films alive Johnny. your my favorite youtuber
Will do! I appreciate the kind words James.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq anytime my friend
Type 96 and 99 had a pretty interesting locking mechanism, both used a square part, hollow inside passing through the gas piston, it serves as the locking lug and locks almost like a VZ-59 (which is a much more modern GPMG), but it have no tilting points in the bolt, which actually makes it more reliable and easier to produce, it could had been stamped, which most of the tilting locking guns can't, excluding the VZ-59, which doesn't tilt the bolt, only the locking lugs, like a P-38, is a totally different concept.
Would love to see you cover some more Japanese weapons in the future, namely the type 38 and 99 Arisaka rifles
Can you do a Type 100 Submachine Gun?
The Type 100 Submachine Gun does not appear in Films and Television Shows
The Type 100 Submachine Gun only appears in Anime Shows and Videogames
Might have be a short video :)
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Okay
Didn’t make that many
SMGs weren’t part of Japanese tactics
Mostly a police weapon
Hey Johnny, could you do a vid on the Owen Gun?
Yes! Love the Owen gun. It's on my list but give me a few weeks.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq That sounds awesome. Looking forward to it!
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq yep a great example of evolving to local conditions....
Awesome! Glad you included some of the more obscure ones. Exactly what i was hoping for!
I'm just discovering your channel...I'm truly enjoying your content..🎉❤
Thanks man welcome to the channel!
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq I'm on my 5th video from ur channel and ain't stopping anytime soon..
the use of Type 96/99 LMG by female civilian personnel in "Bettle of Okinawa" (1971) also impressed me, from very same director of "Japan's Longest Day", Kihachi Okamoto
96式と99式軽機関銃は銃剣を着けると命中率が上がりました。
コレは当時中国での戦いにおいて軽機関銃手は歩兵と共に進撃して必要とあれば敵と接近戦をする事を想定して取付られました。
また日本陸軍には短機関銃がほとんど無かったのでこの銃を短機関銃代わりにし、中には片手で扱った者もいたそうです。
陸軍内においては96式から99式への更新が終戦まで完了しなかった為弾薬の供給で問題がありました。
尚日本海軍では海軍陸戦隊という海兵隊の様な組織がありそこではMP18短機関銃や96式軽機関銃が使用されていました。
余談ですが日本軍には空軍が無い為陸軍と海軍の2組織が戦争をしていましたが明治建国以降この2つは仲が悪かったので第二次世界大戦においても協力関係があまり良くありませんでした。
Atomic bombing not Nuclear bombing Johnny. Thermonuclear bombs weren’t created until the mid to late 50s
I'm not an expert on the subject but fat man and little boy were nuclear fission bombs so I think the terminology is okay. Thermonuclear bombs are also nuclear just more complex involving fusion and hydrogen.
Please make a video of soviet era rifles esp mosin nagant, thanks
Чуть ли не единственный пулемёт на который можно было примкнуть штык .
BANZAI 🎌🗡
"Awlriiight... I'm Johnny!" Love the way that sounds!
Quite a catchphrase....
lol easiest catchphrase ever really
Fun fact: North Korea still uses it's locally produced variants.
do t-72 era tanks
Would love to see M-16, AK-47, & P-51 Mustang videos.
In Battlefield V the Type 97 tank machine gun features its iconic tank optic and is the one to one copy of the ZB26.
It's very interesting how the Type 97 MG has optics for gunners while other MGs of the time relied on tracers and observation slits to aim.
0:39 : "Non but the brave" (1965) aka how Sinatra won the war in the Pacific! 🤣During filming, on May 10, 1964 in Hawaii, Sinatra was caught in a riptide , but Sinatra was rescued by a bunch of surfers.
Don't forget the ww1 german machine gun with the banna clip. I forget it's name.
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun where my homies at
The Type 96 and 99 and very limited, Type 11, also saw active combat in the Korean War and the later struggles in the South East Asian conflicts like (all post war conflicts )
1)Malayan Emergency + civil war
2)Internal struggle in Burma
3)Indonesian war of Independence
4) Vietnam war series ( from 1944/45 up until 1991 , includes all wars involving only Vietnamese history )
5)Cambodian wars (independence struggle, communist uprisings, war with Vietnam, Civil war
6)Korean war
7)Chinese civil war (extension post war)
8)Indonesian Malaysian confrontation
9)Internal conflicts in Philippines
10)Laos conflicts ( Laotian civil war and insurgency)
Plus North Korea also used this Gun features as well as that of Vz 52 LMG and PKM to create their own Type 73 GPMG.
also North Korea and still some insurgent forces in South East Asia (particularly Myanmar) have this gun still in service
Thanks for adding this!
Not to brag. I learned more about the Pacific/Asian theater of WW2; I know about Imperial Japan than Nazi Germany. Their general early modern history, most prolific weapons (Nambu pistols and Arisaka rifles), their outdated but effective and scary ‘swarming’ tactics, sneak attacks, and the suicidal Banzai and Kamikaze charge, few war vehicles, and even their societal mentality at the time and the times leading up to it.
It’s like you know the answers why some people did what they did and yet you keep asking “Why?” Especially with that country being your longtime neighbor.
Nazi Germany may seems like the greatest evil villain everyone talks about, Imperial Japan was very ‘personal’ to me since it was the one who struck China and the US and dragged them into war. I have no grudge against Japan or Japanese but it is still emotional, just find it sad, disappointed, and unfortunate that it had come to it and how it ended (the firebombings and lastly the atomic bombings on Japan).
Nobody in or from Asia and the Pacific talks about World War 2 without being reminded of Imperial Japan and feeling some animosity toward Japan and the Japanese people, even those born after the war.
I don’t know how or why but people can hold long grudges when it comes to past wars. If it wasn’t for WW2, then it would the Imjin War of 1592-1598, (Japanese invasion of Korea, with China ally with Korea). Or perhaps the First Sino-Japanese of 1894-1895, the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 which Japan participated, or the annexation of Korea in 1910. Or even the Russo-Japanese of 1904-1905 mainly for those who are Russians.
(Added) And Japan participated in World War 1 against Germany though the conflict it’s more localized.
Also note all these past armed conflicts prior to WW2 as far I know were the stepping stones for Japan becoming a military power.
Maybe I’m getting too ‘political’ with this; I’ve spoken too much. The point is if not ironic, some people like myself are more inclined to learning (history, politics, culture, technology) when something emotional or even traumatic happened during that time, especially those whose family members or country(s) of origin involved. Almost like education through obsession.
02:08 Really Mr Narrator...So, how come that G.I'S enjoying the low recoil and accuracy of that type 38?
Sounds like he has an ax to grind hey
You should talk about Banzai Tactics
I just realized that the next WW2 movie will probably star a full squad of heroic women as they fight on the beaches of Normandy
10:20
Oh I definitely found not some, but lots of new movies to watch, especially "None bu the Brave", which I didn't know was directed by Frank Sinatra! This is one of the reasons I watch your content Johnny. :)
None but the Brave*
"Farewell to the King" starring Nick Nolte is a good reference to WW2 Japanese small arms. Great movie too.
That was on the top of my list for this! Sadly I couldn't find a decent copy. Maybe next time. :)
I don't why whenever I saw the Type 96 it nevered occurred to me that it might be a Japanese produced gun and instead I just thought "Wow the IJA have a ton of Bren guns"
Lol
Thank you for putting me on to "The Thin Man Goes Home." Entertaining movie.
I’d like to see a maxim machine gun some time soon
On the list!
I got to shoot a Type99 a few years ago and on my UA-cam, there is a video, i thought it was going to be a hunk of Junk. However, it was AMAZING and very smooth
Do we have a arisaka in movies?
일본군의 경기관총은 96식 과 99식 부터 시작했다고 하지만 사실 그 이전인 11식 기관총이 재일 먼저이고 96식 과 99식은 그 이후인 2차대전에서 등장하게 됩니다.일본군의 대부분의 무기들은 제 1차 세계대전에서 멈춰 있었는데 근데 2차대전때 11식 기관총을 만들었고 이때 중일 전쟁이 발생하였지만 중국의 흙먼지 때문에 제대로 발포가 안되는 아이러니한 사태가 발생되었고 결국 중화민국군의 Vz.26을 노휙해서 써먹게 되었고 이걸 확보한 Vz.26은 분석 및 역설계해서 만든것이 96식 과 99식 기관총이다.
근데 96/99식 기관총을 대체하기 위해 만든것이 97식 중기관총이 있다.
2차대전 이후에는 한국전쟁이 발생 되면서 북한군을 비롯한 중공군도 구 일본군이 남기고 간 96식/99식 기관총을 사용하지만 나중에 북한군은 DP-28로 갈아타게 되지만 대부분 대한민국 국군에게 노휙해서 쓰이곤 했다.
아쉽게도 대한민국 국군은 96식/99식을 사용하지 않았고 대한민국 국군의 전신인 대한민국 독립군들이 노휙해서 쓰인적이 있다.해방 직후에는 대부분 미군 무기로 무장했지만 워낙 보급이 부족했다가 인천 상륙 작전 이후에야 제대로 보급을 받았지만...
when you analyze everything coldly, you realize that the Japanese imperial army was an obsolete one, more similar to a WWI army before one of WW2
Can you please watch Heneral Luna or Goyo
Nice video, just one thing : ZB was not Czech, but Czechoslovak weapon
Looks like a British Bren.
Do zero next
I'm surprised you didn't include any game footage of the Type 96 or 99 in Red Orchestra: Rising Storm
4:01 - 4:05 I never knew the type 97 machine gun sounded like a blaster from Star wars.
Never knew about Japan's Longest Day but now I'm super intrigued - looking at the Wikipedia article it seems it was basically Japan's version of the 2004 German Downfall film but released in the 60s. Interesting it was released relatively close to the war's end and I really don't think it's something Japan would produce today with the pervasiveness of right-wing nationalists and atrocity deniers and general ignorance of young people in terms of receiving redacted WWII education. My theory is that most of the OG Japanese that survived the war were introspective regarding Japan's aggressive stance during the war and genuinely remorseful of many of their actions and those of their nation. The right-wing nationalists didn't really become a powerful political force until Japan achieved economic prosperity in the 70s-80s and the nation's troubled 20th century history could not be adequately reconciled with the positive feelings & boundless optimism of the era.
The Cockpit shown in the clips (which FYI is fairly controversial) is a more typical Japanese representation of WWII which is to say "America bad for dropping atomic bombs" and "Japan good for persevering despite adversity"
Matsumoto stuff is usually much longer on the "poor Japanese Grunts at the sharp end, abandoned by higher command". The US forces are usually something like a "doom est machina".
"Japan's longest day" is certainly known to current Japanese Creators. Mamuro Oishi has referenced it twice in the Patlabor series. The two-episode arc at the end of the first OVA series (helpfully named "SV2's longest Day") and Patlabor Movie 2 (which is a loose remake of the OVA).
I will definitely watch Japan's Longest Day.
There's actually an more recent remake of the movie, released in 2015 and called "The Emperor in August". But i wouldn't really recommend it.
I think the first version was better even if it's the version without colour.
If you are really interested you can watch both and compare though.
@@norwegianboyee The Original is being shown this month at Ohio State University's Wexner Center, as part of a program of more obscure Toshiro Mifune Movies.
Isn’t that about the same time America took off the Lesh?
I actually first encountered the Type 99 with a bayonet on it in Call of Duty World at War
It sucks how the Japanese can’t retreat cause they will be shot if they do so
96/99...
I thought that was the score you gave to Japanese light machine guns. A high score on a scale that would never reach perfection.
A mid day upload from johnny? I must be dreaming
It’s interesting in order to try to keep logistics better majority of the the Japanese army fighting in China would still be armed with the older type 38 rifles and type 11 and 96 lmgs and troops stationed in the pacific would be armed with the newer type 99 lmgs type 99 rifles and the type 92 hmg could fire 7.7x58 rimless without issue as well. But as the war dragged on the Japanese weren’t able to produce this equipment fast enough so they started to reissue old type 38 and older lmgs they had in inventory and caused issues.
love this one! Growing up on the wrong side of the Iron curtain and being fed the glorious soviet ww2 movies, for some reason I've developed an interest in naval warfare and the Pacific theatre of ww2 specifically, eventually taking me to places like Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Truk, Saipan, Tinian, Peleliu, Okinawa or Hiroshima. I wholeheartedly agree on HBO's The Pacific a must watch. Subscribed. Would really love if you could find some more interesting Pacific theatre topics, no matter if ships, planes, tanks or anything.
I can do that! Should be releasing a video on the Zero in the next few weeks. Will feature a number of Japanese films.
I was waiting for this episode.
My autistic nature around firearms has been satiated momentarily. Thank you.
lol glad to hear it. See you again in a few days :)
Holy shit, never would i thought i would be reminded of World War Heroes, and that type 96 is via microtransaction too...
Bren Gun was re-barrelled to 7.62x51 Nato from 303 British. Type 99 if re-barrelled to 7.62x51 Nato would have been good also.
The Type 11 could use standard rifle stripper clips/chargers in theory. In reality the standard rifle cartridge proved to be too powerful for the Type 11, which meant the IJA had to issue special machine gun cartridges in rifle clips, which only complicated their logistics even more. And the hopper tended to collect dirt.
Amazing
I love how he includes a mobile video game footage
And it's one my favorite games btw
your whole squad is firing bolt action and the only fire support you get is a 30 rounds mag fed LMG...
a 1943 US marine rifle squad would be all armed with semi auto M1 rifle and supported by 2 BAR s
Could you do a video on the medics of ww2 or blood plasma if ww2? If it’s not too hard
Excellent idea. Will add to my list.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq thankyou
Good choice of Movie. like Too late be Hero ,
My favourite ww2 light machine gun!
Needlessly to say, you’ll likely to find more Japanese guns (or at least resembles them) in Chinese WW2 (aka 2nd Sino-Japanese War) movies and TV shows.
More grandfather fought the Japanese in new guinea and Bouganville in equatorial tropical conditions he faced these weapons and they were definitely effective in combat conditions especially in jungle warfare they most certainly did the job they were intended for
My grandpa actually found what looked to be a Type 99 20mm in the Philippines back in the 70s.
Beautiful Machine Gun!!
Awesome to see some love given to arguably some of the most underrated weapons of the war. Japanese Machine Guns May not have been the best, but they were effective and still gained a deadly reputation amongst Marines.
I'm Japanese.
As they tell that the Japanese military is cruel, and they are poor at the Japanese school, most of Japanese do not know the real fighting power of the Japan forces.
It helped know it.
I show respect from "citizen of enemy country".
People forget that unlike say america or Russia, Japan wasn’t that technologically advanced in terms of they didn’t have the resources or the pure industry that many of the other major nations had access to like for example the factories of Detroit, building tanks by the hour or the small arms factories in Russia building noisin negants by the trillions and lacked the willingness to adapt and change like the Germans and British where during the later stages of the war things like tank destroyers and self propelled artillery became more common due to their much lower costs and as for the British where defeat after defeats
And the swapping of hats where the much older generals and commanders were replaced with much younger and more creative people creating specialized forces like the paras following the huge success of the Germans paratroopers during France, the commando’s which led amphibious raids, the SAS Who’s main goals in destroying key German targets all the while nations like France grew exceptionally well versed in the art of gurrilia warfare as well as espionage and sabotage, relaying vital information and intelligence to the Allie’s and even countries that were under developed like Italy did have its problems and when compared to the others, the best tanks they had were nothing short of tanketes and the best tank they had was an open topped ant tank gun carrier which carried four rounds of ammunition, however the Italians did prove duck when dealing with mountainous environments like the alps where due to experience as well as light guns proved successful and even gave the Royal Navy a run for their money and yes Japan was both highly willing and very cunning, however, combined with their imperialist culture as well as a lack of resources and integration made the Japanese military very problematic as well as the fact that Japan was an island surrounded by mountains as well as other islands rather than the uk which had itself, Ireland , Scotland, wales and Europe to deal with and the highest elevation we have is a hill, light tanks were t that much off an issue and unlike the Japanese, funding and resources were dread as sparsely as possible where tank development and production was steady and slow and priority was give to the navy and air force all the while buying things from America , and so britian wasn’t restrained or as restrained and also having a massive desire to win and not get conquered by the Germans, adding to the fact that most of not many of he gray hairs were either dead, captured or replaced as britian gave the ultimatum to give them some results fast or get the hell out, and again japan never got the support it needed and did well for itself but again due to poor logistics as well as infighting between the many branches all seeking to gain more resources than each other as well as trying to fight a war, the Japanese was bound to loose eventually and again unlike the Americans where things like air strikes wand naval bombardment was readily available to the Americans it was in part due to masterful concealment and defensive positions was what made the Japanese an effective fighting force as well as their light and medium tanks were ideal for fighting in the boggy and swampy jungles where tanks like the churchil, Matilda and even the Sherman’s were having a lot of difficulty navigating through, where there’s a video in Asia CANT say where where tanks were just getting stuck in this mud that they had to be towed out by a tractor or via another tank and both Sherman’s and churchills were getting stuck and was why tanks like the Stuart’s and universal carriers were so popular was because they can traverse through the thick jungle as well as being light enough to traverses the terrain as well as being carried in bulk via a landing craft.
Somehow. Its difficult not to admire the tenacity of the average Japanese soldier.
How do you find these Japanese light machine guns really interesting.
One movie you can mention is 八佰 Eight Hundred (2020)
Come on Johnny, all the titles were accurate this time! What happened??
For real? This might actually be a first for me.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Haha congrats. I was looking out for "titles are cancelled and we're climbing Suribachi!"
Lol I'll try to give you a laugh in the next one
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq As long as you enjoy making the titles. You getting a laugh is important too :)
And yes the Pacific is awesome to watch. My son joined the marines thanks to his grandfather and he wants to go to Okinawa now to see it. It's not the same😆
Could you do a video on the FT 17?
in reality the Zb26 was a feared weapon by the Japanese in China. it was accurate above all.
Good video Johonny. I wonder what will be next... French Chauchat maybe ? It has reputation of "the worst lmg ever adopted by army", wich is not baseless but not deserved either.
Damn looks like they should've dropped that samurai bs and make some actual good guns
First
Why did the Japanese machinegunners wore withe gloves ? 🤔
Remember using type 99 like a sniper rifle in CoD WoW. Good ol' time
Thanks for sharing such videos with us.
It's my pleasure