Gordon L. Rottman, Akira Takizawa

World War II Japanese Tank Tactics (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Dennis, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK. In this book, expert author and tactician Gordon L Rottman provides the first English-language study of Japanese Army and Navy tank units, their tactics and how they were deployed in action. The Japanese army made extensive use of its tanks in the campaigns in China in the 1930s, and it was in these early successes that the Japanese began to develop their own unique style of tank tactics. From the steam-rolling success of the Japanese as they invaded Manchuria until the eventual Japanese defeat, Rottman provides a battle history of the Japanese tank units as they faced the Chinese, the Russians, the British and the Americans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780961446
• Artikelnr.: 40472727

Autorenporträt

Gordon L. Rottman entered the US Army in 1967, volunteered for Special Forces and completed training as a weapons specialist. He served in the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam in 1969-70 and subsequently in airborne infantry, long-range patrol and intelligence assignments before retiring after 26 years. He was a Special Operations Forces scenario writer at the Joint Readiness Training Center for 12 years and is now a freelance writer, living in Texas.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION: 1st Independent Mixed Brigade, 1934
Armored Forces, 1941/ UNIT ORGANIZATION: The tank regiment
reconnaissance units
groups and divisions
other tank units/ DOCTRINE: From infantry support to spearheading assaults
dispersal/ TACTICS: Attack
firing methods
night attack
antitank tactics
defense; Formations: movement
the company and platoon
the regiment and division/ TANK TROOPS: Selection and basic training
tank schools/ COMMUNICATIONS & MAINTENANCE/ BATTLE HISTORY: Shanghai 1932
China 1937
38
China 1944; Malaya 1941
42; Burma 1942
Imphal 1944; Netherlands East Indies 1942; Pacific Islands: Guadalcanal 1942
Saipan 1944
Luzon 1945; Manchuria 1945/ SUMMARY/ SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY/ PLATE COMMENTARIES/ INDEX