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To: C19fan

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.


11 posted on 11/04/2022 9:00:52 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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To: M1903A1
...[The Japanese] never developed anything like our bazookas or recoilless rifles.

They never developed them themselves, but they did manage to reverse-engineer captured American and British weapons, including bazookas. See the link at Post 16.

26 posted on 11/04/2022 10:11:51 AM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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