On the flat top of Nauru, a Japanese 127mmm type 89 anti aircraft gun still points skywards. Early in the morning of June 29th 1944 this gun shot down the US Army B25 the "Coral Princess".
The type 89 gun was intended for ship use, but was made in large quantities from 1929-45. Its 5 inch shells had a range of 9500 meters, and it could fire up to 14 a minute.
These are the tracking and firing controls for the gun. The round things would originally have had dials on them.
And here is one of the two radial engines from the Coral Princess.
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