“How to do destroy a Japanese Tank”
Spit on it?
Had the Germans shared some of their tank technology with the Japanese and encouraged them to attack Russia, WWII likely would have ended differently.
Favorite snippet from the introductory narrative:
“...and is manned by a crew of three men, Japanese size.”
A highly motivated US Marine and his Ka-Bar?
Even more interesting are the various ways Japanese troops tried to take out Western (primarily American) tanks...gasoline bombs, pole charges, suicide attacks with satchel charges, even glass grenades filled with liquid cyanide. They had very little artillery, and never developed anything like our bazookas or recoilless rifles.
Similar to how banzai charges scared Western troops early in the war, the prospect of tanks scared Japanese forces to the end of the war, because they had neither comparable tanks of their own, nor effective means of countering even light tanks.
The Japanese Navy hit Pearl Harbor and then sent those aircraft carriers to chase around some old British ships in the Indian Ocean for a few months.
They were not good at adjusting their plans.
Paging Mr. Molotov, please pick up the red courtesy phone in the lobby.
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