Japanese Type 94 37mm Gun Pacific Theater Diorama New Orleans United States // NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — A Japanese Type 94 37mm gun rests among scattered palm fronds, barbed wire, and infantry artifacts in a Pacific Theater gallery diorama. Developed in 1934 as a close-range support weapon, the Imperial Japanese Army classified this artillery piece as an "infantry rapid fire gun." While its small caliber rendered it largely ineffective against heavily armored American tanks, the weapon's 2,300-foot-per-second muzzle velocity and armor-piercing rounds proved devastating to vulnerable Allied lan

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