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japanese tank commander

imperial army tank commander Colonel Ikeda in the kuriles 1945, he commanded the 11th Tank Regiment on Shimushu island, when the Soviet attacked Shimushu he led a task force of 40 tanks and run over the Soviet soldiers into the beach. The Soviet soldiers fired to the tanks with AT guns, which were unloaded on the beach in a hurry. As a fog gathered over the beach, it was difficult for the tanks to find out AT guns. A close combat had been fought for over two hours and both sides suffered a heavy loss. When the combat ended, there were twenty one destroyed tanks and over one hundred dead Soviet soldiers on the beach.