That Menaced
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The Gun That Menaced Rabaul
When the muzzle of this Japanese gun was found poking out of a hillside in
Rabaul, New Guinea, re
cently, the Rabaul Apex
club decided to dig it out and re-locate it in a Rabaul park as a community ser vice.
But when it was uncovered a shell was revealed jammed in the breech. The Army brought in experts—first from main land New Guinea and finally from Australia—to remove the round.
During extensive prepara tions the barrel was welded, the gun was sandbagged, and a nearby residential area of the town was evacuated in case something went wrong.
And finally the shell was demolished by a charge.
It was then that the experts discovered that the “shell” was a harmless dummy round of a type not seen before.