List of Japanese Army military engineer vehicles of World War II
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This is a list of Japanese Army Military Engineer Vehicles during World War II. Included are diverse types of Armored lumberjack
s, mine clearing vehicles, engineering vehicle
s, Recovery Cranes and other materiel
used by Japanese Army
Engineer units during World War II
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Lumberjack
A lumberjack is a worker in the logging industry who performs the initial harvesting and transport of trees for ultimate processing into forest products. The term usually refers to a bygone era when hand tools were used in harvesting trees principally from virgin forest...
s, mine clearing vehicles, engineering vehicle
Engineering vehicle
Heavy equipment refers to heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing construction tasks, most frequently ones involving earthwork operations. They are also known as, construction equipment, construction plant, earth movers, engineering vehicles, or simply equipment...
s, Recovery Cranes and other materiel
Materiel
Materiel is a term used in English to refer to the equipment and supplies in military and commercial supply chain management....
used by Japanese Army
Imperial Japanese Army
-Foundation:During the Meiji Restoration, the military forces loyal to the Emperor were samurai drawn primarily from the loyalist feudal domains of Satsuma and Chōshū...
Engineer units during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
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Engineer vehicles
- Armoured Stretcher
- Armored Lumberjack "Brasso Ki"
- T G Armored Bridge Layer
- Armored Engineer Vehicle Soukou Sagyou Ki "SS-Ki"(Type Ko,Otsu,Hei,Tei and Bo)
- Mineplow Tank "Chi-Yu"
- SwampSwampA swamp is a wetland with some flooding of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water. A swamp generally has a large number of hammocks, or dry-land protrusions, covered by aquatic vegetation, or vegetation that tolerates periodical inundation. The two main types of swamp are "true" or swamp...
Crossing Vehicle (FB) - Armored Engineer Vehicle "SS"
- Armored Lumberjack "Ho-K"
- Type 95 Crane Vehicle "Ri-Ki"
- Armored Recovery Vehicle "Se-Ri"
- Type 98 Mini Engineer Vehicle "Ya-I Go"
- High-Voltage Dynamo Vehicle "Ka-Ha"
- Type 97 Pole Planter and Type 97Type 97Type 97 may refer:Japanese weapons*Type 97 grenade*Type 97 sniper rifle*Type 97 20mm AT Rifle*Type 97 Light Machine Gun*Type 97 81 mm infantry mortar*Type 97 90mm Infantry Mortar*Type 97 150mm Infantry Mortar*Type 97 Chi-Ha, a medium tank...
Cable layerCable layerA cable layer or cable ship is a deep-sea vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, electricity, and such. Cable ships are distinguished by large cable sheaveshttp://atlantic-cable.com/Cableships/Monarch%284%29/ | History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea... - Type 94 Repair Vehicle
- Type95 Crane Vehicle "Ri-Ki"
- SnowmobileSnowmobileA snowmobile, also known in some places as a snowmachine, or sled,is a land vehicle for winter travel on snow. Designed to be operated on snow and ice, they require no road or trail. Design variations enable some machines to operate in deep snow or forests; most are used on open terrain, including...
"Yu-Ki" - AmphibiousAmphibious vehicleAn amphibious vehicle , is a vehicle or craft, that is a means of transport, viable on land as well as on water – just like an amphibian....
Engineer Vehicle "Na-Mi" - Experimental ExcavatorExcavatorExcavators are heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, stick, bucket and cab on a rotating platform . The house sits atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels. A cable-operated excavator uses winches and steel ropes to accomplish the movements. They are a natural progression from the...
- Experimental Crawler Truck
- Type 95 Collapsible Boat
- Type 99 Pontoon bridgePontoon bridgeA pontoon bridge or floating bridge is a bridge that floats on water and in which barge- or boat-like pontoons support the bridge deck and its dynamic loads. While pontoon bridges are usually temporary structures, some are used for long periods of time...
- Rubber Rafts
Army engineer units
- 2nd Tank Division Engineer Unit
- 27th Independent Engineer Regiment
- 12th Independent Engineer Regiment
- 5th Independent Engineer Regiment
- 6th Div AIF (Airfield Engineers)
- Airfield Construction Group No.5
- Oil fieldOil fieldAn oil field is a region with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum from below ground. Because the oil reservoirs typically extend over a large area, possibly several hundred kilometres across, full exploitation entails multiple wells scattered across the area...
Construction Group No.2 - 1st company of the 26th Independent Engineer Regiment
- 2nd Independent Engineer Company
- 80th Independent RadioRadioRadio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
Platoon - 2nd unit from the Oil wellOil wellAn oil well is a general term for any boring through the earth's surface that is designed to find and acquire petroleum oil hydrocarbons. Usually some natural gas is produced along with the oil. A well that is designed to produce mainly or only gas may be termed a gas well.-History:The earliest...
drilling Section of the 21st Field Ordnance Depot - 1st Field Well Drilling Company
- 2nd Field Well Drilling Company
- 3rd Field Well Drilling Company
- 4th Field Well Drilling Company
- 48th Anchorage Headquarters
- 118th Land Duty Company
- 1st from the 11th Water Supply and Purification Unit
- one platoon of the 12th Engineer Regiment