For example, a Japanese general once remarked, "Who needs radar when we have ears ?" No joke.Ĭopeab 05-15-2008, 06:26 PM Hey, anyone know of any published accounts of WII tank battles in the Pacific? The Japanese high command believed they could make up in "fighting spirit" what they lacked in numbers, industrial capacity, and technology. I may be overstating my case, but most Japanese ground weapons systems (tanks, artillery, small arms, etc.) lagged well behind those of all the other major combatants. Japanese tanks made early war Shermans look like King Tigers. Even the American Stewart light tanks with their 47mm guns were able to take on most Japanese tanks. Japanese tank technology was stuck back in the late thirties for the entire war.
There were a few such engagements on Saipan, Okinawa, and in the Phillipines. The Japanese tended to waste their few tanks in suicidal, last ditch Banzaii charges.
Nothing comparable to what transpired in Europe. There weren't really any "tank battles" per se, but there were several small-scale skirmishes involving small numbers of tanks. Raellus 05-15-2008, 06:17 PM Formosa no, the Phillipines yes. The problem was that most Japanese tanks were far inferior to most any other tank in the world at the time and they were employed more as bunkers rather than used as tanks but, if thats the criteria of tank on tank fights then there were many as US forces often used the heavier guns or flamethrower tanks to take out bunkers.īoogiedowndonovan 05-15-2008, 05:14 PM thanks, Hangfire7 05-15-2008, 02:44 PM I beleive there was 1 involving US forces, I beleive it was with US Marines in one of the later battles. Boogiedowndonovan 05-15-2008, 02:18 PM Hey, anyone know of any published accounts of WII tank battles in the Pacific?
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