Japanese Tank Commander posing with a Type 4 Chi-To Tank and a Ho-Ro self-propelled gun, Japan 1945.

Type 4 Chi-To Tank and  Ho-Ro self-propelled gun

Japanese forces land on a beach in the Dutch East Indies - March, 1942.  The Dutch government surrendered to the Japanese without putting up any resistance on the ground.  The IJN had previously defeated a combined fleet of U.S., British, Dutch, and Australian ships in the Battle of the Java Sea.

Landing Party

SNLF soldiers in Memorial for Japanese war dead after the conquest of Wake Island, 1942.