American riflemen quickly picked off three Japanese soldiers who were riding on the tank, but the vehicle kept on, heedless of bazooka and machine-gun fire. The lone-wolf tank overran a machine-gun crew, shot up cowering infantrymen in a ditch, and, in the course of its odyssey, swept a battalion aid station, a battalion command post, and the 307th regimental headquarters with cannon and machine-gun fire before a pair of American light tanks chased it away. In its wake, the enemy tank left two rifle companies in disarray. “The
