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The Japanese generals had made a mistake in their assessment of the tanks used against China, a country whose army had few tanks or antitank weapons. [41] By 1937, Japan fielded 1,060 tanks in 8 regiments, but most were designed for and used in an infantry support role.
The Burma Independence Army ( BIA) [a] was a pro-Japanese and revolutionary army that fought for the end of British rule in Burma by assisting the Japanese in their conquest of the country in 1942 during World War II. It was the first post-colonial army in Burmese history. The BIA was formed from a group known as the Thirty Comrades under the ...
This is a list of armour used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War. The present list also includes other military armoured vehicles in use at the time ( armoured personnel carriers , armoured cars , armoured trains , etc.).
The 2nd Tank Division was raised in Manchukuo on June 24, 1942. [1] Stationed in Mudanjiang in northeastern Manchukuo, it was tasked primarily with border patrol of Manchukuo's eastern frontier with the Soviet Union under the overall command of the Japanese First Area Army . In February 1944, the 11th Tank Regiment was sent to the Kuriles.
A TKS tankette in the Polish Army Museum. A TKS tankette with a human for scale in a 2019 parade in Poland. A tankette is a tracked armoured fighting vehicle [1] that resembles a small tank, roughly the size of a car. It is mainly intended for light infantry support and scouting. [2] [3] Colloquially it may also simply mean a small tank.
The Battle of Okinawa ( Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen), codenamed Operation Iceberg, [24] : 17 was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. [25] [26] The initial invasion of Okinawa on 1 April 1945 was the largest ...
The Battle of Shanghai (Chinese: 淞滬會戰) was a large urban battle between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China in the Chinese city of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It lasted from August 13, 1937, to November 26, 1937, and was arguably the single largest and longest battle of the entire war, [13] with it even ...
