German Tank Captured by Japanese in Sino-Japanese War

[Genscher Russia]

two unarmed captured Pz-I)

Could anybody post photos of these two unarmed panzers. The link is nat available unfortunately!

[Kim Sung]

two unarmed captured Pz-I)

Could anybody post photos of these two unarmed panzers. The link is nat available unfortunately!

Genscher, Ostpanzer just linked my initial post.

Regards

[Rnox]

I'm always looking for photo evidence of Pz I A befehlswagen in chinese service .

[Kim Sung]

For several months, I've been seaching for whereabouts of those captured German tanks in Japan. I've searched in Japanese and Chinese search engines but couldn't find any meaningful data yet.

It seems that those tanks are not at Yasukuni shrine in Japan. Maybe they might have been to other places.

There is a possibility that Japan was so needy for armored vehicles at the final stage of the Pacific War that the Japanese guys sent those German tanks to the front.

Anybody who can give information on whereabouts of those German tanks will be appreciated.

[Akira Takizawa]

Anybody who can give information on whereabouts of those German tanks will be appreciated.

See below link.

http://www2.ttcn.ne.jp/~heikiseikatsu/m ... hotank.htm

Pz-1 was used as a target of shooting test.

Taki

[Universal the God of War]

are these real ?

[Tim Smith]

are these real ?

What, the pictures?

Yes, Germany sold 17 Panzer I's to China. And I believe the USSR sold 87 T-26's to China also, in 1938.

[Simon Gunson]

Germany also sold some early Junkers fighters and some early He-111AO bombers in 1936.

[Kim Sung]

One of the two Panzers captured in China was paraded on a street of Tokyo in January 1939. You can see "Blue Sky with a White Sun" mark of the Republic of China on the front side of the tank.







http://www.warbirds.jp/heiki/245000.htm

According to this article, NHK recently broadcasted a footage in which the tank in question is paraded on a Tokyo street on January 8, 1939.

この写真が撮影された時期に、撮影されたと思われる（ややこしい表現だ）映像を、少し前にＮＨＫの番組で見た記憶がある。その映像も、やはり「鹵獲品」の札を付けた１号戦車が、白い排気ガスを吐きながら市内（このころは『東京市』なのである）を走っていた…。この映像を解析すれば、もう少し実状を掴めるのだろうが、そちらに関する手がかりも無い。あとは昭和１４年１月頃発行の週刊誌、月刊誌を丹念につぶしていくしかないのだが、そう云う余裕は無いのであった

[Stamford54]

Out of all of the photos and illustrations of the Chinese Panzer 1A's that I have seen so far the picture of the captured Chinese Panzer 1A posted by Kim Sung is the only one that shows the KMT sunburst on the glais.

Does anyone know if this is the only Panzer 1A that had this the sunburst marking on the glais ?

Does anyone know if there is a reaon why not all the Panzer 1A's have the sunburst on the glais ?

Thanks.

Mickey Eng