Category:Type 89 Grenade Discharger

**Type 89 grenade launcher**
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Instance of	artillery model;
Subclass of	grenade launcher;
Country of origin	Japan; Empire of Japan;
Service entry	1929;
Service retirement	1945;
Mass	4.53 kg;
Length	254 mm (gun barrel);
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English: The Japanese Type 89 Grenade Discharger (Jutekidanto) was a light mortar used in World War II. It was known in the West as a "leg mortar" or "knee mortar". The former term came from the fact that Japanese soldiers carried them strapped to the belt, with the barrel hanging next to the thigh. The latter term was mistranslated from Japanese, and led to serious injuries when Allied soldiers tried propping them against their knees, rather than against the ground as was intended, when firing them. The same translation error happened with the Type 10 grenade discharger.

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The following 15 files are in this category, out of 15 total.

1941 Hong Kong Battle - Japanese troops in North Point.png 711 × 516; 522 KB
Diagrammatic drawing of Type 89 50 mm grenade discharger.png 825 × 837; 55 KB
Evacuatie republikeinse troepen uit het door het Nederlandse leger bezette gebie, Bestanddeelnr 1514-3-3.jpg 3,671 × 2,438; 1.71 MB
Five fighting Coast Guardsmen, who participated in the initial landing on Manus Island in the Admiralties, display Japanese trophies picked up during the swift occupation of that South Pacific stronghold. (51207237610).jpg 5,609 × 4,748; 6.56 MB
IJA 5th division, landing on Malayan beach-2, December 1941.jpg 768 × 691; 219 KB
Japan Type 89 grenade.jpg 344 × 793; 65 KB
Japanese Type 89 grenade discharger Incendiary shell.gif 520 × 203; 62 KB
Japanese Type 89 grenade discharger Incendiary shell.PNG 521 × 200; 84 KB
Japanese Type 89 grenade discharger.gif 520 × 421; 48 KB
Japanese Type 91 50 mm grenade.gif 531 × 490; 107 KB
Japanese50mmGrenadeMortar.jpg 260 × 446; 27 KB
Kumasi Fort and Museum (20).jpg 6,000 × 3,376; 4.44 MB
SC 107691 - Major John J. Carew examining a Japanese sword (officer's type) and Captain Emil Khail, of River, Wisc., examining a Japanese grenade thrower.jpg 5,461 × 4,404; 2.59 MB
Soldiers Zhejiang Campaign 1942.jpg 600 × 531; 367 KB
日軍91式手榴彈.png 780 × 720; 114 KB

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