It moved directly east, through the dunes and scrub jungle, into and out of the antitank barrier, and to the west edge of the clearing surrounding the airfield.
Illustration: The antitank ditch dug by the Japanese along the center and right of Orange Beaches 1 and 2 soon after the landing became the locations of command posts of various units.
Colonel Nakagawa directed construction of beach obstacles, using rails and logs, and ordered antitank ditches dug.
Collins ran out to rescue him, only to fall by his side instantly killed by a Japanese antitank round.
Smith, the assistant division commander, landed and moved into the antitank ditch within sight of the airfield clearing area.
Instead, the Japanese armor became the focus of antitank fire of every sort and caliber.
But by then, tanks had neutralized the tunnel mouth, and a tank bulldozer filled in a portion of the antitank ditch.
On the north and south flanks of the beach, he constructed concrete emplacements to shelter and conceal antitank and antiboat artillery sited to enfilade the expected waves of landing craft.
About the time of the Japanese tank attack, a mortar barrage hit the 3/5 CP in the antitank ditch near the beach, killing several staff and prompting the evacuation of the battalion commander.
The early D plus 1 barrage hit the regimental CP, took out numbers of the staff, and buried the regimental commander in the crumbling Japanese antitank trench in which the CP was “sheltered.
Major Hurst necessarily spent time regrouping his separated battalion, using as a coordinating line a large antitank ditch astride his line of advance.
Illustration: A two-man Boys antitankrifle crew mans their weapon during a training exercise in 1943.
Discovery of a telephone wire led the raiders to a large bivouac site, which held an unattended 75mm mountain gun and a 37mm antitank gun.
Perhaps the oddest weapon carried by the raiders was the Boys antitank rifle, a 35-pound behemoth firing a .
As they moved along the coast toward Tasimboko, they discovered more than a thousand life preservers placed in neat rows, a large number of foxholes, and even several unattended 37mm antitank guns.
He launched the 2d Battalion, 5th Marines, in yet another assault, this time with help from additional mortars and 37mm antitank guns, but it met the same fate as all previous attempts.
A second tank was hit but in the process the enemy position was discovered: a camouflaged, concrete bunker housing a 47mm antitank gun and 20 troops, all of whom were killed.
But as Japanese antitank weapons and mines reached the height of lethality at Okinawa, the Sherman’s thin-skinned weak points (1.
Its mortars and antitank guns were particularly well-sited on Horseshoe.
Udo’s force consisted of two rifle battalions, a regimental gun company and an antitank company from the 44th Independent Mixed Brigade, in all about two thousand seasoned troops.
Finally, the wingtips carried four Swatter homing antitank missiles, two on each side.
Originally intended as an antitank weapon, the Mi-24 had quickly become a high-speed tool for air-to- ground combat.
Illustration: Dead at his post, this Japanese soldier lies by a smashed 37mm antitank gun near the airfield.
The Marine third from the left hefts a Boys rifle used by the raiders as an antitank weapon.
Blake examines some of the improvised antitank weapons faced by his unit--a Molotov cocktail and a magnetic mine.
The Japanese employed a mix of antitank weapons and individual close-in tactics to counter the light tanks.
On landing, Battery B and an Army antitank platoon cleared the area of remaining Japanese stragglers.
Weapons manufactured locally for the ground forces include all types of hand-carried weapons, antitank and antipersonnel grenade launchers, and mortars.
Under General Kuribayashi’s direction, Japanese engineers had planted irregular rows of antitank mines and the now-familiar horned antiboat mines along all possible exits from both beaches.
This day’s slow start led to more setbacks for the tankers; Japanese antitank gunners hiding in the jumbled boulders knocked out the first approaching Shermans.
It was replaced in the European Theater by the M1 57mm antitank gun.
The 37mm antitank gun, manned by a crew of four who fired a 1.
A light tank battalion, a special weapons battalion of antiaircraft and antitank guns, and a parachute battalion added combat power.
Early in the battle, Japanese 75mm antitank guns were deadly against the Shermans, but once these weapons were destroyed, the defenders could do little more than shoot out the periscopes with sniper fire.
Other brave individuals retrieved a pair of 37mm antitank guns from a sunken landing craft, manhandled them several hundred yards ashore under nightmarish enemy fire, and hustled them across the beach to the seawall.
The explosion jammed the turret and stunned the crewmen, who were further shaken, but not wounded, when an antitank grenade exploded against the armor.
A high silhouette made it a comparatively easy target for Japanese gunners, who fortunately did not have a truly deadly antitank weapon, and narrow treads provided poor traction in the mud of New Britain.
Pre-landing planning called for the Marine amtracs to drive 1,000 yards inland before discharging their embarked Marines, but this tactic failed because of a heavily mined beachhead, with its antitank ditches and other obstacles.
Marine antitank grenades and bazooka rockets were wet and ineffective and the Japanese blazed away with impunity and then ducked back into the woods.
The movements of the Weapons Troop and the Antitank Platoon were successful, and by 1800 the southern half of the hill and the town of Tacloban were in American hands.
The antitank platoon of the 1st Battalion set up its 37-mm.
Finnegan, the regiment's commanding officer, sent the Antitank Platoon and elements of the Regimental Weapons Troop in support of the 2d Squadron, where that unit faced the southern end of the hill mass.
Fortunately, since the Antitank Platoon had displaced forward by sections, one section was in position at this point and was able to quickly eliminate the enemy threat.
In the meantime, Company A tried to advance and knock out the enemy antitank gun but the Japanese stopped the company with direct fire.
During the morning the artillery in support of the 1st Battalion knocked out two antitank guns, a heavy machine gun, and an enemy dugout position.
The Antitank Platoon was sent out to destroy the gun and its crew.
At the same time, Japanese engineer and artillery units at Albuera "were erecting anti-landing obstacles along the beach and putting up antitank defenses.
The leader of the antitank squad, though wounded in both legs, ran back to the battalion command post and asked for tanks in support.
An estimated reinforced battalion with machine guns, antitank guns, and field pieces, together with small arms, defended the area.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antitank" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
