[3] It replaced the earlier Type 11 75 mm AA gun in front line combat service, and at the time was equal in performances to any of its contemporaries in Western armies[4] and was considered capable of handling any targets the Japanese army was likely to encounter on the Asian mainland.

Although it was soon overtaken by improvements in aircraft technology and was largely obsolete by 1941, it continued to be used on many fronts until the end of the war.

[7] The Type 88 75 mm AA gun entered service between 1927 and 1928, and was deployed to virtually every anti-aircraft field artillery unit as protection against medium level aircraft attacks.

[8] In the early phases of World War II, Allied military intelligence initially assumed that the Japanese Type 88 was a copy of the formidable German Flak 36/37 88 mm gun due to its name.

They found the Type 88 gun's high velocity rounds were extremely effective anti-tank weapon when fired horizontally.