Type 61 (tank)
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The Type 61 tank is a main battle tank developed and used by the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
A Type 61 tank on display at the GSDF Camp Zentsuji.
Type 61 tanks on the move in 1985 as part of a joint US/Japanese exercise.
Rear view of the turret.
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M4 Sherman
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The M4 Sherman, officially Medium Tank, M4, was the medium tank most widely used by the United States and Western Allies in World War II. The M4 Sherman was reliable and well adapted to mass productio
Type 61 (tank)
…initially the National Police Reserve, later called the National Security Force, and finally renamed the Japan Ground Self Defense Force) and provided M4A3E8 Sherman medium tanks and M24 Chaffee light tanks. These tanks had seen heavy use during World War II, and after their handover to Japan they required total…
An M4 (105) Sherman tank with spare track-links welded on its front for additional armor protection, preserved at the Langenberg Liberation Memorial in Ede, Netherlands
Cutaway Sherman showing transmission and driver's seat
A Sherman DD amphibious tank of 13th/18th Royal Hussars in action against German troops using crashed Airspeed Horsa gliders as cover near Ranville, Operation Overlord, Normandy, 10 June 1944
The second production Sherman, Michael, displayed at The Tank Museum, Bovington, England (2010)