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TANKS AT BARRIO SAN JOSE

These are the three tanks landed by the Japanese prior to the surrender.  One of them was an American M-4 which had been abandoned on Bataan.  It was the only tank which had been able to negotiate its way across the invasion beach, and it was used to drag the two Japanese tanks from the beach towards the action.

The tank in the foreground is the American M-4.  As the vehicles are headed towards South Beach, it is likely that this photograph was taken as the vehicles were  being withdrawn from the island.

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