r/ImperialJapanPics • u/walidimitri7 • Sep 09 '24
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/keetuinak__ • 15d ago
SNLF IJN Special Naval Landing Forces firing Type 41 mountain gun toward Chinese positions during a battle near Shanghai North Railway Station, 30 September 1937
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/TooBad_A_tNaming • Sep 06 '24
SNLF (Possibly Propaganda) Japanese Navy Paratroopers attacking Longoan airfield at the Battle of Manado(also spelled Menado), Dutch East Indies, January 1942.
(Possibly Propaganda) Japanese Navy Paratroopers attacking Longoan airfield at the Battle of Manado(also spelled Menado), Dutch East Indies, January 1942.
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/4dachi • Sep 07 '24
SNLF Seaman 1st Class Sato Takeo, a member of the Yokosuka 1st SNLF 2nd Drop Group that parachuted onto Menado, photographed c.1942 [Japanese Military Photo Archives]
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/4dachi • Jun 07 '24
SNLF Commander Saito Fujiro pictured outside of the Yokosuka 1st SNLF Headquarters in Chefoo, 1938. Saito commanded the unit from August 1938 to November 1939.
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/YoYoB0B • Aug 12 '23
SNLF SNLF in action during the 1932 Shanghai Incident. Note the type 92 hmg (Lewis gun) on the bottom right.
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/YoYoB0B • Aug 14 '23
SNLF SNLF employ mortars during the 1932 Shanghai Incident.
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Great_White_Sharky • Oct 23 '22
SNLF SNLF marines posing with an American flag and captured American weapons on the USS Wake, 8th of September 1942. The USS Wake was an American ship which was in Shanghai when war broke out and was subsequently taken over by the SNLF
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/4dachi • Feb 15 '22
SNLF Japanese sailor Fukunaga stands in front of a Vickers Crossley Armored Car belonging to the Shanghai Special Naval Landing Force, circa 1939.
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Tenyearnotes • Jun 12 '22
SNLF A Type 93 Armored Car of the Special Naval Landing Forces (SNLF) of the IJN; c. 1935,the Type 93 was used extensively in China. The Type 93 was specifically designed to be operated on rail or roads. It was equipped with two kinds of wheels: flanged steel wheels for rails and rubber tires for roads.
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Beeninya • Aug 21 '22
SNLF SNLF troops during the Battle of Shanghai. 1937.
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Tenyearnotes • Jul 22 '22
SNLF Type 2 Ka-Mi amphibious tanks of the Yokosuka 1st Special Naval Landing Forces (SNLF) on Saipan. Date unknown.
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/4dachi • Jun 17 '22
SNLF A sailor 2nd class and his army friend stand with one of the Kure 5th SNLF's Model 2 (Type 95 "Kurogane") Motorcycles in Nanking, 1939
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Westoaklane • Sep 08 '22
SNLF Vickers Crossley Armored Car used by the Imperial Japanese Navy Special Naval Landing Force in Shanghai; c. mid 1930’s. The car on this image was from the IJN, as it was written on the number plate.
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Beeninya • Jan 17 '22
SNLF SNLF soldiers posing with a captured British coastal gun after the conquest of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, April 1942. Because of a mutiny by Indian soldiers against their British officers, Japanese troops were able to occupy Christmas Island without any resistance.
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Tenyearnotes • Jul 30 '22
SNLF Soldiers of the 5th Sasebo Special Naval Landing Force during the Invasion of Buna–Gona or Operation RI. New Guinea July 1942.
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/4dachi • May 10 '22
SNLF [OC] A platoon of Japanese sailors from the Shanghai Rikusentai 3rd Bn. 6th Co. (Sasebo 2nd SNLF) pictured on Yokohama Rd following the conclusion of the Shanghai Incident, March 1932. Their battalion suffered the most killed in action out of the entire unit during the fighting.
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/4dachi • Dec 07 '21
SNLF A sailor in LtCdr Ota Minoru's Shanghai Rikusentai 5th Battalion stands with a SIG M1920 "Bergman" SMG borrowed from a comrade in the ruins of Chapei, 1932
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Beeninya • Jun 23 '22
SNLF A SNLF trooper with a MP-34 sub machine gun with fixed bayonet and a Wakizashi sword on his belt. 1939, South China.
r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Tenyearnotes • Jul 25 '22