Knocked out Japanese tanks

[Peter H]

Allied photos of destroyed,captured Japanese tanks

US 32nd Division at Leyte,December 1944

http://www.32nd-division.org/history/ww2/leyte/127c.jpg




Kwajalein,February 1944

http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/Assets/Stil ... -02518.JPG




Tarawa,November 1943

http://www.uscg.mil/history/gifs/Tank_Tarawa.jpg




Saipan,June 1944

http://www.nps.gov/archive/amme/wwii_mu ... ank_lg.jpg




Iwo Jima,1945

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/IV ... -p619a.jpg

[Peter H]

Nomonhan,1939

http://www.aviapress.com/book/mcs/mcs004_2.jpg


http://www.aviapress.com/book/mcs/mcs004_3.jpg


http://www.aviapress.com/book/mcs/mcs016_4.jpg


http://www.aviapress.com/book/mcs/mcs016_8.jpg

[Peter H]

Luzon,1945

http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/jp_t ... troyed.jpg



Milne Bay,1942:

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/rus ... ces-12.jpg

[Peter H]

Saipan.

From the 2nd Marine Division history Follow Me!,1948.

..tank attack was launched against CT6 lines just before dawn of D plus 2.Marines repelled it and destroyed between 24 and 32 tanks.Five can be seen burning in this photograph.

[Peter H]

Saipan again

Three Marines stand in front of a wrecked Jap[sic] tank...

[Peter H]

Same source-Guadalcanal.

Like a wrecked ship,this Japanese tank sinks slowly into the sandy beach..

[Peter H]

Tarawa

..Japanese command post..a disabled tank is in the foreground

[Akira Takizawa]

Nomonhan,1939
http://www.aviapress.com/book/mcs/mcs016_8.jpg

They are Japanese tanks taken over by the Soviets in Manchuria at the end of WWII.

Taki

[Peter H]

Thanks Taki,I thought the abundance of SMGs was around then.

From the 1st Marine Division The Old Breed,1949.

Tanks knocked out at Peleliu airfield

[Peter H]

Bakri,Malaya

From Soldiering On,1946

...Battle pictures of Jap[sic] tanks,halted by fallen trees and smashed by AIF anti-tank guns..

[Sewer King]

A Type 95 light tank on board the wreck of San Francisco Maru. The latter was sunk 250ft down off Dublon island at Chuuk (Truk) during the American attempt to destroy the Combined Fleet there in Operation HAILSTONE, 17 February 1944.



This was a photo feature (and magazine cover) for Sylvia A. Earle's article "Life Springs from Death in Truk Lagoon," National Geographic May 1976, pages 578-613. All photos by Al Giddings.


I hope Truk has not since been vandalized, a concern raised in the article even back then.

In February 1944 where was this tank being shipped to? presumably with others of its unit? Elements of 52nd Infantry Division were also en route to Truk around this time, when three of the freighters carrying them were sunk by US submarines and aircraft.

-- Alan

[Akira Takizawa]

In February 1944 where was this tank being shipped to? presumably with others of its unit? Elements of 52nd Infantry Division were also en route to Truk around this time, when three of the freighters carrying them were sunk by US submarines and aircraft.

I don't know its destination, but San Francisco Maru was employed by the IJN. So, its cargo was also for the IJN unit.

Taki

[Peter H]

Luzon,1945

From Purnell's History of the Second World War

[Peter H]

Milne Bay again.

The two SNLF tanks that got bogged near the airfield

From A Pictorial History of Australians at War

[Peter H]

From the AWM.

Type 94 captured Balikpapan 1945.