Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun

All blued metal construction except for the wooden downward hinging traverse handles. The receiver has Japanese characters on the top indicating the Type 92 with the serial number, the Kokura arsenal triple ring trade mark and '16.1' (January 1941) on the left side. The barrel has machined cooling fins for half its length towards the muzzle. The barrel jacket has larger cooling fins from the receiver to approximately half way along the barrel. A cone shape flash hider is fitted to the muzzle and it has a large cocking handle on the right side of the action. It is fed by a Hotchkiss design 30 round ammunition strip which is lubricated by an oiler to assist with cartridge extraction.

The Japanese Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun was commonly referred to as the 'woodpecker' due to the noise it made when fired. This gun, serial number 21344, was captured at Milne Bay, and is the same as that pictured in AWM photograph 026540.