A light tank unit of the Japanese garrison was destroyed in a daring charge against the American forces that had invaded the airfield during the Battle of Peleliu Island in the Pacific War on September 15, 1944, at around 5:00 p.m. Some of the tank crews were innocent boys who met a horrific end.

   On September 15, 1944, at around 5:00 p.m., a light tank unit of the Japanese garrison was destroyed in a daring charge against the American forces that had invaded the airfield during the Battle of Peleliu Island in the Pacific War. Some of the tank crews were young boys who were left with a childlike innocence, and they met a horrific end. The thinly armored Japanese light tanks were aborted and set ablaze one after another before the anti-tank fire of the American troops. The American troops, with dozens of recoilless guns (anti-tank guns) and bazooka guns, fired at the Japanese light tanks, which were loaded with infantrymen and galloped straight across the airfield, with perfect aim and fire. One after another, the Japanese light tanks were set down, burst into flames, and were blown to smithereens with their full complement of infantrymen.

　The frontline battlefield on Peleliu Island was in chaos. The Japanese tank corps made the first counterattack plan to sortie the division tank corps, the last stronghold of the Japanese army, to recover the battle line. The Japanese forces, accompanied by light tanks, were too large and outnumbered by the enemy American forces to mount a counterattack. As soon as the American tanks invaded toward the airfield, the Japanese tank corps charged from the rear. The Japanese tanks charged in front of the American tanks and said in unison, "Charge! and the Japanese tanks charged, killing all the young boys in the tank corps.

　The Japanese tanks were on their way from the northern sector and were targeted by naval artillery and air strikes. The tank corps, the only mechanized unit in the Japanese army, was wiped out without showing its strength. The U.S. forces, which had already landed on Peleliu Island at 8:00 a.m. on September 15 and expanded their bridgehead, were landing large quantities of weapons and ammunition. The Japanese soldiers who jumped from their tanks did not have a shred of shelter to hide themselves in the middle of the battlefield. Aiming their automatic rifles at them, the U.S. troops reaped the Japanese soldiers as if they were targets for target practice. Even so, the Japanese soldiers held up their bayonets and rushed into the American positions, shooting and stabbing each other and throwing grenades at each other. The Japanese soldiers fell on the corpses of American soldiers, and American soldiers fell on top of them again. A tank that escaped to the Japanese position blew itself up after hitting an American M4 tank with a detonator attached.