Background The Ho-Ni II was an improvement of the previous Ho-Ni I, which was armed with a 75 mm (2.95 in) gun. It was designed to carry out close infantry support using…
Tag: Pacific
Pulp Figures Melanesian Island Warriors.
If you have been following this blog, you will have noticed that I have been bitten by the Pulp fiction bug. Slowly, I have been collecting and painting figures and terrain to…
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, November 1942
Background The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, sometimes referred to as the Third and Fourth Battles of Savo Island, the Battle of the Solomons, the Battle of Friday the 13th, or, in Japanese sources, the Third Battle of…
Defense of the Calumpit Bridges, (Jan 1942
Background: The Philippines Campaign (Filipino:Labanan sa Pilipinas) or the Battle of the Philippines, fought 8 December 1941 through 8 May 1942, was the invasion of the Philippines by Japan and the defense…
Battles of Khalkhin Gol (1939)
Background “The Battles of Khalkhyn Gol were the decisive engagements of the undeclared border conflicts fought among the Soviet Union, Mongolia and the Empire of Japan in 1939. The conflict was named…