one of several Mark VII 3-inch landing guns remaining in the hands of the marine garrison in Peking in service with the 39th Company
One of several Mark VII 3-inch landing guns remaining in the hands of the Marine garrison in Peking in service with the 39th Company, Marine Artillery. Just 51 of these handy 1,700-pound guns were built from a German Ehrhardt design 1909-12 and were used extensively by the Marines in the Banana Wars. China was the last hurrah of these pecuilar 3″/23 caliber field guns– and the Japanese captured six of the example at Cavite in 1942.