Japanese Generals Ridiculed Sherman Tanks As Tin Cans, Until Flamethrower Shermans Cleared All Caves

Описание: Discover how Japanese commanders who mocked Sherman tanks as cowardly "tin cans" watched helplessly as flamethrower Shermans burned through every Pacific island fortification. This meticulously researched account reveals how Japan's 15-ton Type 97 tanks with 33mm armor faced 33-ton Shermans with 75mm armor and Satan flamethrower systems projecting napalm 80 yards at 2,000°F. Through Japanese officer testimonies and battle statistics, witness how American production of 49,234 Shermans versus Japan's 2,515 medium tanks created insurmountable disparities. Learn how eight flamethrower tanks at Iwo Jima neutralized 400 cave systems in days, positions that had resisted months of conventional bombardment. From Tarawa where Japanese 47mm guns bounced off Sherman armor to Okinawa where 800 US tanks methodically destroyed every defensive position, this account exposes how tank-infantry telephone coordination, dozer-Shermans, and flame tanks industrialized battlefield destruction. With statistics showing Japan sacrificed 83 soldiers per Sherman destroyed while flame tanks eliminated 4,500 fortified positions, discover why General Kuribayashi's final message admitted: "Spiritual strength cannot overcome mechanical flame projection" and why Japanese doctrine calling Americans "cowards hiding in steel" proved fatally wrong when those steel shells brought industrial extermination to island warfare.