Japanese troops on the attack in the war with China.

Keeping to the ground

Japanese battleship "Mutsu" (Nagato-class) during the preparatory work in the naval base at Yokosuka. Sailors busy checking the ship's systems and work on the body of the battleship. She has met her untimely end not through hostile fire, but by internal explosion in the summer of 1943. 
On the right side of the photo the float-scout Nakajima E8N1 is visible as being loaded, it was the basic reconnaissance aircraft of the Sino-Japanese War.

Battleship Mutsu

Japanese soldiers of the 4th Division, with a 6.5 mm machine gun Taishō Type 3 (also known as the Taishō 14 Machine Gun) near the Miluo river in Hunan province, China, during the Second Battle of Changsha, September 22 or 23, 1941.