Shimushu tanks?

[Akira Takizawa]

Whether it is possible to learn where there are tanks on the bottom photo? Where the photo is made it?

Navy tanks at Kagoshima, Kyushu

Taki

[FreyFox]

Thanks

[FreyFox]

Whether it is possible to define a type of this machine?

[tom!]

Hi.

Looks like remains of a soviet T-20 "Komsomolets" prime mover.

Yours

tom!

[FreyFox]

Yes, is similar that really so.

Thanks.

[FreyFox]

On a photo the tank on Shimushu an island? Whether it is possible to translate that what is written under a photo?

[Akira Takizawa]

It is the photo when embarking a tank of 11th TR on ship for Shimushu. The place will be Otaru, Hokkaido.

Taki

[FreyFox]

Very thanks

[FreyFox]

Here the document which should be very interesting. It is the report about
Results of inspection of monuments of military history on islands.
The Japanese defensive works and military are in detail described
Technics{Technical equipment} which there have remained.
Artillery, tanks, planes and tractors.
The report is made in 1992. Language Russian.


Памятники военной истории на Севереных Курилах
(По результатам обследования островов Шумшу и Парамушир в 1991 - 1992 гг.)

http://rufort.info/library/ayushin/ayushin.html



Whether is still what or the Japanese photos of island Shumshu? Military constructions, soldiers, technics{technical equipment}? It very much interests.

[FreyFox]

Shimushu

[FreyFox]

The broken Soviet ships on a Shimushu beach.

[AVV]

Good evening!

The Russian text below the picture says that the ships are Japanese ones. But as for me, they really look like American LCIs that were lend-leased to the USSR.

Best regards, Aleks

[FreyFox]

The text below wrong. It is really American LCI. Them four units were lost.

[AVV]

The text below wrong. It is really American LCI. Them four units were lost.

Good evening, FreyFox!

Yes, you are right. But the Russian source on Lend-Lease ships (the work of late historian S.S. Berezhnoi) gives a little bit different figure of LCIs lost at Shimushu. They were: DS-1 (from Russian Desantnoe Sudno or Landing Ship) ex-LCI-672, DS-5 ex-LCI-525, DS-9 ex-LCI-554, DS-43 ex-LCI-943 and DS-47 ex-LCI-671, so five in total.

Best regards, Aleks

[Brady]

I dont supose theirs any Shots (pictures) of the Russians landing during the Kuriels campagine?