Скачать или смотреть Japanese Thought Their Type 95 Was Fast — Then M4 Shermans Crushed 63 Tanks in One Battle

February 7, 1945 — Before sunrise on Highway 5 north of San Jose, Luzon, Sergeant James Richardson jolted awake inside his Sherman to a sound no tanker ever forgot. Not the deep, confident rumble of American engines… but a thinner, strained, almost desperate whine echoing through the dark. Japanese tanks — moving fast, moving blind, and moving straight into a trap they didn’t know existed.
Richardson’s crew snapped into action. Infantry from the 63rd Regiment dove behind barricades. Artillerymen swung their guns down the narrow highway. Everyone knew what that engine noise meant:
The Japanese 2nd Tank Division, battered from the fighting at Muñoz, was making a breakout attempt. Their commanders thought Highway 5 was still open. Their maps were seven hours old. Their communications were shattered. They were driving straight toward the one place they could not afford to be — a perfectly prepared American kill zone.
At 0530, the first silhouette appeared in the gray pre-dawn haze — a Type 97 Chi-Ha, its 57mm gun sweeping left and right, hunting shadows. Behind it stretched the entire surviving armored column: more Chi-Has, Type 95 Ha-Gos, trucks packed with infantry, fuel, ammunition — the last heartbeat of a division on the brink of annihilation.
They expected an escape route.
What they found was ambush.
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