New GV

[skullman]

I would like to see a tank detroyer added-hellcat or slugger

[Unit791]

Babalonian, i got this from a wikipedia page,

During the Battle of Saipan, 36 Type 97s of the 9th Tank Regiment, commanded by Colonel Takashi Goto joined with Type 95s of the 136rd Infantry Regiment commanded by Colonel Yukimatsu Ogawa in an all-out counter attack against the US 6th Marines. This was one of the largest tank attacks mounted by Japan during the war, and was stopped by machine guns, mortars, bazookas, artillery, and naval gun fire. However, the Japanese army seldom made use of a major armored attack, preferring to retain the tanks for use as centerpieces of defense positions.

[Ack-Ack]

Babalonian, i got this from a wikipedia page,

During the Battle of Saipan, 36 Type 97s of the 9th Tank Regiment, commanded by Colonel Takashi Goto joined with Type 95s of the 136rd Infantry Regiment commanded by Colonel Yukimatsu Ogawa in an all-out counter attack against the US 6th Marines. This was one of the largest tank attacks mounted by Japan during the war, and was stopped by machine guns, mortars, bazookas, artillery, and naval gun fire. However, the Japanese army seldom made use of a major armored attack, preferring to retain the tanks for use as centerpieces of defense positions.

It wasn't a Japanse counter attack with only tanks.  The 9th Tank Regiment was used in support of a large Japanese infantry force that counter attacked the left flank of the 6th and 2nd Marine divisions. 

Your post that is trying to imply that machine guns were used to take out Japanese tanks during this battle is misleading and inaccurate.


ack-ack

[SmokinLoon]

The only real time Japanese tanks were feared is when A: we didnt know they had them and B: we had no AT cannons, personal AT means (see bazooka, flame thrower, or even in some cases massed M2 .50 HMG's) or tanks of our own to counter them.  If we had one of the three than the allies usually shrugged them off.