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The Type 5 medium tank Chi-Ri (五式中戦車, Go-shiki chusensha Chi-ri) was the ultimate medium tank developed by the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Intended to be a heavier, lengthened, more powerful version of Japan's sophisticated Type 4 Chi-To medium tank , in performance it was designed to surpass the US M4 Sherman medium tanks ...
The following is a list of Japanese military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels, and other support equipment of both the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from operations conducted from start of Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the end of World War II in 1945. [1]
Jane's World War II Tanks and Fighting Vehicles. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0007112289. Roland, Paul (1975). Imperial Japanese Tanks. Bellona Publication. ISBN 978-0852424346. Rottman, Gordon L.; Takizawa, Akira (2008). World War II Japanese Tank Tactics. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1846032349. Trewhitt, Philip (1999). Armoured Fighting Vehicles ...
Experimental IJN Long barrel 120 mm SPG being demonstrated to US Army personnel, post-surrender. Experimental tank Number 1 a/k/a Type 87 Chi-I medium tank; Experimental Type 91 heavy tank; Experimental Type 97 Ki-To SPAAG 20 mm anti-aircraft tank; Experimental medium tank Chi-Ni; Experimental medium tank Type 98 Chi-Ho; Experimental Hi-Ro Sha ...
List of Japanese armored divisions of the Imperial Japanese Army. During World War II, the IJA only organized four divisions, these were: IJA First Tank Division [1] IJA Second Tank Division [2] IJA Third Tank Division [3] IJA Fourth Tank Division [3]
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 13. Castle Books. ISBN 0-7858-1314-4. Rottman, Gordon L.; Takizawa, Akira (2008). World War II Japanese Tank Tactics. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1846032349. Smith, Robert Ross (2005). Triumph in the Philippines: The War in the Pacific. University Press of the Pacific. ISBN 1-4102 ...
After this period, they would be placed on the primary reserve service list (yobi-eki) for five years and four months in the army or four years in the navy, and would be subsequently placed on the secondary reserve service list after 10 years in the army (five in the navy) before being placed on the national service list (kokumin hei-eki) after ...
Overview of Imperial Japanese Army weapons and armaments in World War II; Army of the Land of the Rising Sun 100 years ago. Part 1. Leap from the Middle Ages into the XX century (in Russian) (part 1 of 4) Japanese war posters; The PBS program Victory in the Pacific Archived 2010-03-26 at the Wayback Machine