![]() Tanks of the 9th Tank Regiment were destroyed one after another, bursting into flames and burning with billowing smoke.Ī Marine gunner wrote of another night engagement:īoth tanks opened fire with their machine guns and, "when one gunner saw his tracers ricochet straight up he let a 75mm HE go, hitting the first tank, it exploded about 20 yards from his tank." Sergeant Shiro Shimoda tells of his tank company's battle:Īmerican M4 Sherman tanks suddenly appeared and we opened fire on them, but our shells bounced off them like baseballs owing to their thick armor. The text is enhanced with firsthand accounts and quotes from both American and Japanese tankers present in the battles recounted. Inside the title page is a list of abbreviations and a conversion table of imperial to metric. USMC M4A2 Sherman vs Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go is presented through 10 chapters and sections in 80 pages: You can view the book on the Osprey site here. Their Type 95 was obsolete and yet being their most numerous tank bore the brunt against American tanks on the jungle and coral islands of the central Pacific. In the subsequent clash with the Soviet Union, Japan found they severely needed to modernize. When Japan started hostilities with a China lacking armor and anti-tank weapons, their tanks did well. As the civil war in Spain burned, Japanese observers took notes and set to work designing modern tanks from lessons learned. Indeed, Japan had the fifth largest armored force in the world in the 1930s. Japan was impressed with the potential of tanks after The Great War. This superbly detailed title reveals how both the two sides' tactical and technical differences in the approach to armored warfare soon became apparent over a series of deadly engagements, from the first tank fight at the battle of Tarawa in November 1943, through to engagements on Parry Island, Saipan, and Guam, before ending with Peleliu in September 1944. They settled upon a larger medium tank - in the case of most Marine Corps tank battalions, the diesel-powered M4A2 (unwanted by the US Army). Meanwhile, the Americans saw the tank as an infantry support weapon, but developed a more systematic tactical doctrine. Tactically, tanks were often frittered away in armored versions of the familiar banzai attacks. A flawed Japanese doctrine emphasized light infantry support tanks, often used in small numbers. The different national tank doctrines of the United States and Imperial Japan resulted in a terrible mismatch of the predominant tank types in the crucial Central Pacific campaign. It is catalogued with Osprey’s short code GNM 108 and ISBN: 9781472840127. This 80-page book is the108th title of Osprey’s series Duel. Tracing the contemporary tanka tradition from Yosana Tekkan in the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth-century poetry of such writers as Taware Machi, Modern Japanese Tankselegantly conveys an authentic sense of Japanese lyric to a Western audience.USMC M4A2 Sherman vs Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go, The Central Pacific 1943-44 from Osprey Publishing Ltd is authored by Romain Cansière and the late Ed Gilbert, and illustrated by Edouard A Groult. His introduction gives an excellent overview of the development of tanka in the last one hundred years. With his graceful, eloquent translations, Makoto Ueda captures the distinct voices of these individual poets, providing biographical sketches of each as well as transliterating Japanese text below each poem. Modern Japanese Tanka includes four hundred poems by twenty of Japan's most renowned poets who have made major contributions to the hisotry of tanka in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Responding to artistic and social movements of the West, tanka has incorporated influences ranging from Marxism to Avant-Garde. Tanka retains the aesthetic sensibilities that circumscribe Japanese culture, but just as Japan has changed during this tumultuous century, tanka has undergone equally radical shifts. Modern Japanese Tanka is the first comprehensive collection available in English. Tanka has begun to attract considerable attention in North America in recent years. Arguably the central genre of Japanese literature, the 31-syllable lyric made up the great majority of Japanese poetry from the ninth to the nineteenth century and was the inspiration for such poetry as haiku and renga. Tanka, a clasical Japanese verse form like haiku, has experienced a resurgence of interest among twentieth-century poets and readers.
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