Knocked out Japanese tanks

[Peter H]

From ebay

[Peter H]

From ebay,seller therebelslacker

[Peter H]

From: http://www.fotosmilitares.org/index.php ... 853d70dc7a

Guam

[Peter H]

Location unknown

[Peter H]

From ebay,seller therebelslacker again

[Peter H]

Nice photo from Pacific Legacy,Rex Smith & Gerald Meehil of one of the two wrecks still on Saipan

[Peter H]

From ebay,seller therebelslacker

[Peter H]

From Time-Life

Burma

[Peter H]

From: http://bbs.tiexue.net/default.htm?ListU ... 6-0-1.html

Guam

[Peter H]

Manchuria 1945

[Akira Takizawa]

The tank on the third photo is not a real Japanese tank. It will be a reproduction on Russian movie.

Taki

[Peter H]

Thanks Taki.Thats what I thought as well.

Peter

[Sewer King]

The turret and gun look like an attempt to simulate a Type 97-Kai Shinhoto Chi-Ha tank.

But what could the hull possibly be? Can the suspension, drive sprocket, and roadwheels be matched to any Russian tracked vehicle?

One of the dug-in, actual Type 97s at iwo Jima. These were the only ones of 26th Tank Regiment to reach the island?

(Lt.Col. Whitman S. Bartley USMC. Iwo Jima: Amphibious Epic (Historical Branch G-3 Division, Headquarters US Marine Corps, 1954), page 161)

-- Alan

[Peter H]

Here's a Type 97 from: http://muwsan.hp.infoseek.co.jp/photo-97kai.htm

The hull in the Russian movie doesn't match but the suspension, drive sprocket, and roadwheels look close.

[Peter H]

Of interest as well,video of the Emperor inspecting Type 97s.

From: http://www.3gpdb.com/videoy.php?b=Lru5Mcpaj4j&e