Surviving Japanese Tankettes and Light Tanks Last update : 2 January 2018

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1 Surviving Japanese Tankettes and Light Tanks Last update : 2 January 2018 Listed here are the Japanese Tankettes and Light tanks that still exist today. John Ham, November Type 94 Te-Ke Kevin Wheatcroft Collection (UK) This vehicle was bought by the Wheatcroft Collection in 1997, the previous owner was Ken Hughes, from Australia Type 94 Te-Ke Patriot Park, Kubinka (Russia) Serial Number 82 (Yuri Pasholok) YuriPasholok, September

2 TMA_O, October 2009 Type 94 Te-Ke The Tank Museum, Beijing (China) Type 94 Te-Ke Camp HuKou, HuKou, Hsinchu (Taiwan)

3 Anna Calvert, September Type 94 Te-Ke Treloar Technology Centre at the Australian War Memorial Canberra (Australia) Type 97 Te-Ke Nationaal Militair Museum, Soesterberg (Netherlands) Vehicle built in Japan during WW2. In 1945, it became part of the Indonesian army. In 1947, it was captured by the Dutch marines on East-Java, during the Indonesian National Revolution (Netherlands AFVs register)

4 Type 97 Te-Ke Patriot Park, Kubinka (Russia) Yuri Pasholok, September Justin Taylan, Type 97 Te-Ke Kokopo War Museum, Kokopo, Rabaul (Papua New Guinea) This tank was previously on display outside the command bunker in Rabaul. In 1994, after the Rabaul volcano eruption, it was moved to the Kokopo War Museum (Pacific Wrecks website)

5 Dragonburning, May Type 97 Te-Ke Adams Brothers Corporation Collection, Kolonia Pohnpei Island (Micronesia) running condition ltoosilly, April Type 97 Te-Ke Sunken in the near of the Chuuk Islands (Micronesia)

6 Type 97 Te-Ke Royal Australian Armoured Corps Tank Museum Puckapunyal, VIC (Australia) John D. Helms, February Type 97 Te-Ke National Armor and Cavalry Museum, Fort Benning, GA (USA) This vehicle is currently stored and is not publicly visible

7 Type 97B Te-Ke Camp San Luis Obispo, CA (USA) Glen Williford, December 2008 Ross Rockstad, September Type 97 Te-Ke Ross Rockstad Collection (USA) running condition When completed, the tank will look fully original but of course will not be. Ross used a 4 cyl. 70 hp Deutz air cooled diesel for the power plant. All the upper hull will be fabbed from new steel. Tank will be fully operational when complete other than the 37mm which will look original but will not fire. Portions of hull sides were cut out and were replaced (Ross Rockstad)

8 Roger Davis, September 2007 Type 95 Ha-Go Bovington Tank Museum (UK) Type 95 Ha-Go Private collection (UK) This tank was previously displayed at the Zero Park, Shirahama (Japan). This tank bears a Hull Number 4225 and appears to have been made in the period February-March It carries a late-war high velocity Type 98 37mm cannon. It was one of about 20 Type 95 tanks issued to Dokuritsu Konseii 52 Ryodan (52nd Independant Mixed Brigade) and sent in 1943 to Ponape (Pohnpei) Island near Truk in the Pacific Ocean; an island that was never invaded by the Americans. Most of the remaining tanks are still there. In about 1985, tank number 4225 was acquired by Major General Seigo's Museum Foundation in complete unrestored condition. It was shipped back to Japan and put on display after external restoration at the Military Museum in Kyoto. When the museum closed the tank was moved to the Zero Park Display Area at Shirahama Gyoen Hotel near Osaka, and when this closed in 2005, it was purchased by a British collector, and shipped to England. It is currently in Wroclaw, Poland where it is being restored to running order by Lewszyk Engineering Works. On completion in , the tank will be put it on display at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. The owner is looking for a Japanese language WWII spare parts list for his Type 95 Hago tank

9 Type 95 Ha-Go Victory Park at Poklonnaya Gora, Moscow (Russia) The tracks and roadwheels are not the original ones ( The tank comes from Shumshu, in the Kuril Islands, where it was recovered in the late 90s ( Taranov ) Type 95 Ha-Go Kubinka Tank Museum (Russia) Serial Number 1958 ( Taranov ) Roger Davis, October 2007

10 Yuri Pasholok, September Type 95 Ha-Go Patriot Park, Kubinka (Russia) Tank from 11th Tank Regiment, transported in Autumn 2015 from Shumshu (Kuril Islands) to the park " Patriot " (Yuri Pasholok) tancist, July Type 95 Ha-Go State Military Technical Museum, Ivanovskoje Moscow Oblast (Russia) running condition This tank was rebuild to running condition with a GAZ-41 engine from BRDM-1 and a modern gearbox. More than 50% of armor plates were made from scratch, it has new built tracks, roadwheels, gun and other small details ( Taranov )

11 Evgeny Rudenko - Type 95 Ha-Go Local museum, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island (Russia) This tank sat for 6 deades near Hill 171, on Shumshu Island (Kuril Islands), where it was destroyed in August 1945 by Soviet forces, during an attack on the island. It was recovered and cosmetically restored during the summer rahul m, November Type 95 Ha-Go Armoured Corps Museum, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra (India)

12 Type 95 Ha-Go Royal Thai Army School, Bangkok (Thailand) ki43.on.coocan.jp/over...irotc.html Type 95 Ha-Go Reserve Officers Training Center, Bangkok (Thailand)

13 Type 95 Ha-Go Army Base, Lamphun (Thailand) praga - Type 95 Ha-Go In front of an infantry barracks, Lampang (Thailand)

14 Type 95 Ha-Go Phichai Dab Hak Camp, Uttaradit (Thailand) ki43.on.coocan.jp/over...ichai.html Type 95 Ha-Go 3rd Army Museum, Phitasanulok (Thailand)

15 Type 95 Ha-Go Phitsanulok Airport, Phitsanulok (Thailand) Type 95 Ha-Go Thai Army Base, Nakhon Sawan (Thailand)

16 "rudy.rijen Dav, March Type 95 Royal Thai Army Special Warfare Center at Ft. Narai, Lopburi (Thailand) Type 95 Ha-Go Artillery Museum, Mueang District, Lopburi (Thailand)

17 sjashford, October Type 95 Ha-Go The Cavalry Centre, Fort Adison, Saraburi (Thailand) running c. ki43.on.coocan.jp/over...korat.html Type 95 Ha-Go Army Base, Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat) (Thailand)

18 Type 95 Ha-Go National War Memorial, Lam Luk Ka, Pathum Thani (Thailand) Lek, March Type 95 Ha-Go Wirathai Monument, Nakhon Si Thammarat (Thailand)

19 Arne Pedersen, March

20 Dirk Spennemann, Stan Gadja, Fifteen Type 95 Ha-Go tanks The Japanese Tank Farm, Kolonia Pohnpei Island (Micronesia) In the hillside of the Adams property, there were a number of large trenches cut like revetments and into these were parked 15 Japanese tanks, numbered 1 to 15 ( According to Stan Gadja, "No. 8 will be the basis of a complete restoration because it is the commander's tank - note the smoke grenade launchers on the turret"

21 Arne Pedersen, March Type 95 Ha-Go Kolonia, Pohnpei Island (Micronesia) This tank is one of the 15 from the Japanese Tank Farm collection apdurruti, February

22 syketurah, May

23 syketurah, May

24 syketurah, May Five or six Type 95 Ha-Go wrecks Satawan Atoll, Chuuk State (Micronesia) The treds and armaments of these tanks are removed (Pacific Wrecks website) ltoosilly, April

25 ltoosilly, April Three Type 95 Ha-Go tanks Sunken in the near of the Chuuk Islands (Micronesia) These tanks were was sunk on the Japanese Naval Ship "San Francisco Maru", in the Chuuk (a.k.a. Truk) Lagoon. The Maru was sunk at the end of WWII, with "Operation Hailstone" in which the US Navy attacked the Japanese Imperial 4th Fleet stationed in Chuuk Lagoon. In the blaze of battle, 15 Japanese naval ships, six tankers, 17 cargo ships, and 265 planes disappeared beneath the sea (info. from various websites) James Fincham, May Type 95 Ha-Go Sunken north of the Ghizo Island (Solomon Islands) The tank sunk with the ship which transported it, the Toa Maru No 2, on 31 January 1943 (Pacific Wrecks website)

26 Daniel Leahy, April Type 95 Ha-Go Australian War Memorial, Canberra (Australia) One of the two Japanese tanks that was captured in a pivotal action at Milne Bay in New Guinea in September 1942 after the defeat of the Japanese landing force. It had been involved in actions with Australian infantry of the 61st and 2/10th Batallions, and was stopped by SX1603 Jack O Brien with a Boyes anti-tank rifle on 28 August The tank was brought to Australia, dismantled, examined and partially reassembled by the Army. It was damaged by mine testing, then languished outside in a scrap yard for many years, and was then acquired by a private collector in the 1970 s. The tank was repainted at that time and put into a diorama type display. No other conservation work was done other than the loose replacement of a non original track on one side of the tank. The Australian War Memorial acquired the tank in 2005 following the dispersal of this private collection, and restored it (AWM website) Photo provided by Al Kelly Type 95 Ha-Go Private collection, somewhere in New South Wales (Australia)

27 Type 95 Ha-Go National Armor and Cavalry Museum, Fort Benning, GA (USA) This vehicle is currently stored and is not publicly visible. This particular Type 95 Ha-Go was a long-term resident of the old and new Patton Museum at Fort Knox. On the Pacific Wrecks web site at information from Daniel Sebby, curator of the California State Military Museum, states that this Ha-Go was one of two captured by the U.S. Army's 40th Infantry Division in the Philippines in Since the 40th Infantry Division fought on Luzon against the Japanese 2nd Tank Division equipped with Type 95s in all three of its regiments, the 6th, 7th, and 10th, it could be assumed that this Type 95 came from Luzon. It was brought back to California and put on display until transferred to the Patton Museum (Garry Redmon)

28 Raul654, June Type 95 Ha-Go U.S. Army Center for Military History Storage Facility Anniston, AL (USA) Previously part of the Aberdeen Proving Ground museum. This tank was captured on the Attu Island (Trevor Larkum)

29 Lorén Hannah, May Type 95 Ha-Go Indiana Military History Museum,Vincennes, IN (USA) This tank was previously at the Marine Corps Museum at Quantico, VA (Trevor Larkum) booksandbones - Type 95 Ha-Go National Museum of the Pacific War, Fredericksburg, TX (USA)

30 Type 95 Ha-Go Flying Heritage Museum, Everett, WA (USA) Previously on Guam island Type 95 Ha-Go Oregon Military Museum, Clackamas, OR (USA) running condition

31 rotormotor, December Type 95 Ha-Go Battery Randolf US Army Museum, Honolulu, HI (USA) Type 95 Ha-Go Located near a golf course, Guam Island (USA)

32 Type 4 Ke-Nu Victory Park at Poklonnaya Gora, Moscow (Russia) This tank was recovered from the Kuril Islands Jim Goetz, August 2015 Vitaly Lomov, March Type 4 Ke-Nu Kubinka Tank Museum (Russia) Serial Number 218 ( Taranov )

33 Yuri Pasholok, September Type 2 Ka-Mi Amphibious Tank Patriot Park, Kubinka (Russia) Serial Number 521 (Yuri Pasholok) Alexey Domin, April Type 2 Ka-Mi Amphibious Tank Victory Park at Poklonnaya Gora, Moscow (Russia) This tank was recovered from Shumshu, Kuril Islands, it belonged to one of group of the IJN Special Naval Landing Force (SNLF). It was displayed unrestored for few months, and was then cosmetically restored

34 armyjunk - Type 2 Ka-Mi Amphibious Tank On the Koror island (Republic of Palau) armyjunk - Type 2 Ka-Mi Amphibious Tank Near the Airai Village (Republic of Palau)

35 Al Kelly Type 2 Ka-Mi Amphibious Tank NW of the SeaBees Camp (Camp Katuu) (Republic of Palau) gabbyb_3121, April Type 2 Ka-Mi Amphibious Tank About 3km NW of the SeaBees Camp (Camp Katuu) (Republic of Palau)

36 Al Kelly Two type 2 Ka-Mi Amphibious Tanks NW of the SeaBees Camp (Camp Katuu) (Republic of Palau) These two tanks are located down the hill, a little behind a Ka-Mi that is not buried. They are both partly buried, with rear pontoons attached, and with an intake snorkel (Al Kelly) Al Kelly Third type 2 Ka-Mi Amphibious Tanks NW of the SeaBees Camp (Camp Katuu) (Republic of Palau) This tank is also located down the hill, a little behind a Ka-Mi that is not buried. It is partly buried, with rear pontoons attached, and with an intake snorkel (Al Kelly)

37 Al Kelly Type 2 Ka-Mi Amphibious Tank Arakabesang Island (Republic of Palau) This tank is located on private property at the top of the hill (Al Kelly) Vitaly Lomov, March Type 95 Ri-Ki Crane Vehicle Kubinka Tank Museum (Russia)

38 Justin Taylan, Type 97 Pole Planter Kokopo War Museum, Kokopo, Rabaul (Papua New Guinea) Type 97 Te-Ke hull Meiktila, Mandalay Division (Burma / Myanmar)

39 Unkown source Type 95 Ha-Go wreck Unknown exact location (Russia) This tank was recovered from the Kuril Islands, it is currently being cosmetically restored Type 95 Ha-Go wreck intersection of Bogyoke and Pyi Daw Tha streets, Tamu (Burma) The tank was uncovered in January 2006 in Tamu, upper Sagaing Division. A previous owner of the ground where the tank was uncovered, 83-year-old U Se Nar, said the tank had been left behind by the Japanese Army when it departed Burma in He said he buried the tank on the property in 1972, because the steel had no value at that moment (Myanman Times)

40 Type 95 Ha-Go wreck Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture (Japan) Type 95 Ha-Go chassis Unknown exact location, Hokkaido Island (Japan) Modified into a civilian bulldozer after WW2

41 Type 95 Ha-Go wreck Minami-Tori-shima (Marcus Island) (Japan) Photo provided by Al Kelly Ricardo, July

42 Justin Taylan, Two Type 95 Ha-Go hulls Kokopo War Museum, Kokopo, Rabaul (Papua New Guinea) Lois Summerhill, October Type 95 Ha-Go hull Somewhere in the middle of a balsa plantation Rabaul (Papua New Guinea)

43 armyjunk - Type 95 Ha-Go hull Peleliu (Republic of Palau) Type 95 Ha-Go hull Somewhere on Peleliu (Republic of Palau)

44 Al Kelly, 2001 Al Kelly, 2001 Two Type 95 Ha-Go hulls Babeldaob island (Republic of Palau) Now buried under construction camp. Coordinates: Lat 7 27'16.36"N Long '46.88"E (Al Kelly)

45 Al Kelly, 2001 Al Kelly, 2001

46 Al Kelly, 2001 Al Kelly, 2001

47 Al Kelly, 2001 Five Type 95 Ha-Go hulls Babeldaob island (Republic of Palau) All partly buried with turrets upside down beside them. They are to the east of a bend in the road to Melekeok, not far after the turn-off. Coordinates: Lat: 7 27'21.20"N Long '15.47"E (Al Kelly) Matthew, May Type 95 Ha-Go wreck Banadero area, Saipan Island (Northern Mariana Islands)

48 Type 95 Ha-Go wreck Lelu Harbour, Kosrae (Micronesia) Iorliw, November Type 95 Ha-Go wreck Kosrae (Micronesia)

49 Glenn Williford Type 95 Ha-Go remains Tarawa (Gilbert and Ellice Islands) Eric Alvarado, November Some other Type 95 Ha-Go remains Tarawa (Gilbert and Ellice Islands)

50 Type 95 Ha-Go wreck Oregon Military Museum, Clackamas, OR (USA) This tank was recovered from USN bombing range (USA AFVs register) Roger Davis Type 95 Ha-Go wreck somewhere in the jungle on Oahu, HI (USA) Photo provided by Al Kelly

51 Alan Wilson, August Type 4 Ke-Nu hull Victory Park at Poklonnaya Gora, Moscow (Russia) This tank was probably recovered from the Kuril Islands Type 2 Ka-Mi Amphibious Tank hull Shumshu, Kuril Islands (Russia) The tank is located on the soutwest coast of the island

52 Anatoly Vladimirovich Novak, September Type 95 Ha-Go turret Museum of the Pacific Fleet History Vladivostok, Primorski Krai (Russia) Type 95 Ha-Go turret Tarawa (Gilbert and Ellice Islands) Glenn Williford

53 Type 95 Ha-Go reproduction Private collection (Japan) running condition Type 95 Ha-Go Somewhere in China It is unknown if this vehicle is original or a reproduction

54 Type 2 Ka-Mi Amphibious Tank Unknown location (Republic of Palau) any Japanese Tankette or Light Tank that I forgot. I m looking for photos of those tanks : This work would not have been as complete as it is, without the great help of Trevor Larkum and Allan Kelly, and their document Preserved Japanese Tanks, which was released online for several years. Thanks to them for their researches. This document is a synthesis of photos and information published on the web. I would like to thank the people who took these photos and put them on their websites, or sent them to me, and also those who helped me doing these lists (particularly people of the AFV News Discussion Board). For any question, you can me at soldat_ryan@hotmail.com Main page :