Japanese Anti-Tank Tactics

[Sayeret]

http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/download/csipubs/japan/japan_c3_pt2.pdf
http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/download/csipubs/japan/japan_c3_pt3.pdf

[Musashi]

http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/download/csipubs/japan/japan_c3_pt2.pdf
http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/download/csipubs/japan/japan_c3_pt3.pdf
Of course thinking logically the missing part is:
http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/download/csipubs/japan/japan_c3_pt1.pdf
These articles does not concern just anti-tank defence, but cave warfare before all.

[M_S]

Good read.

Wonder what other reasons contributed to the huge loss ratio against enemy soldiers.

Didn't the japanese lose like 10 soldiers for every single american soldier?

[Fliptape]

dont know about that but every german soldier killed 0,3 allied soldiers and the allied soldier killed 0,00015 german soldiers in average

[Hellfish6]

Good read.

Wonder what other reasons contributed to the huge loss ratio against enemy soldiers.

Didn't the japanese lose like 10 soldiers for every single american soldier?

Force multipliers. The US had a massive abundance of tanks, artillery, aircraft and naval gunfire with nearly unlimited ammunition to support them. The Japanese did not and often had little or no way to counter these US advantages.

The Japanese had excellent light infantry (reknowned for their night infiltrations and jungle fighting) but had almost no experience in any other type of fighting - or, rather, the units that did were confined to China and Manchuria. They often had very limited logistics capability as well.

I just finished a book about the CBI theater and how the US, ROC and UK were able to defeat the Japanese in Burma, largely due to airpower interdicting the Japanese supply lines. Often when the US and IJA met in battle, the Japanese soldier had only a handful of rice to eat, putrid water to drink and a couple dozen rounds of ammunition.

Also, the IJA had fostered a culture of sacrifice, where they were often given die-in-place missions while on the defensive and would not surrender. IIRC the battle of Okinawa or Iwo had high Japanese casualties because many of them threw themselves off a cliff rather than surrender.

[Laworkerbee]

I wish my grandfather was still alive to check this out

He was a Marine tanker in WWII from Tarawa to Iwo Jima