Japanese Soldiers posing with a captured American M3 Stuart Light Tank Morin was wounded, and he and his crew were captured by the enemy. The other four M3s were also hit, but managed to leave the field under their own power they retreated only to be destroyed by enemy aircraft later on. Morin maneuvered his M3 off the road, but took a direct hit while doing so, and his tank began to burn. This is a picture of an M3 Stuart taken in the Philippines during the defence against the Japanese invasion

Morin, to move north from the town of Damortis, where here on 22 December 1941, the platoon of M3 Stuarts ran into Japanese Type 95 light tanks from the Imperial Japanese Army 4th Tank Regiment. Hanes ordered the tank platoon, led by LT Ben R. Since Hanes had not been able to re-fuel at Gerona, where it had been planned to refuel their gasoline powered M3's his Stuarts were nearly out of gas, so he had to consolidate the fuel from the whole company in order to 'top-off' just one platoon of five light tanks. General Wainwright, commander of US/allied forces in the Philippines during its final period, received reports that the town of Damortis was fast being approached by mechanized elements of the Japanese Army and he ordered Captain Hanes to engage them.

Japanese army ha-go’s plow over a field laced with sharpened bamboo on their way into Bataan Morin engaged the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) 4th Tank Regiment's Type 95 Ha-Go light tanks north of Damortis during the retreat to the Bataan Peninsula in 1941. tank versus tank combat to occur in World War II, began on 22 December 1941, when a platoon of five brand new M3 Stuart light tanks from 'B' company, 192nd Tank Battalion led by Lieutenant Ben R.

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