Born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan in 1924, to join the "Manchurian Pioneer Youth Volunteer Army" after graduating from elementary school, to join the "Manchurian Pioneer Youth Volunteer Army" and enter Manchuria. At the age of 16, he served as a guard for the Manchurian Railway Corporation, and since then he has been transferred to various positions and held different positions. In May 1945, he entered the Kwantung Army as a "first-class soldier", and in August of the same year, he was ordered to join the "Kwantung Army Special Task Force" and attack soviet chariots with "meat bombs", and survived and became Soviet prisoners. He escaped on his way to Siberia and was able to return to China in 1953, where he died in 2009 at the age of eighty-five.
Before his death, Toshizo Washimoto, a Japanese Chinese, was interviewed by Mr. Takashi Hashimoto and told about his years in Manchuria. The day he remembers best was August 9, 1945, when the Red Army launched an offensive against Manchuria. He mounted his machine gun on horseback and prepared for the Soviet attack. But when he saw that it was the Soviet heavy tank army that attacked them, he was completely desperate. There was no way but to hide the warhorses in the valley and wait for the superiors to transfer the chariots to help.
Soon, he and his young comrades received orders from their superiors that the Kwantung Army had no more chariots, requiring them all to be "meat bombs", to use their flesh and blood to compete with the steel beasts of the Soviet army, and to require every two soldiers to blow up a Soviet chariot.
After receiving this order, everyone's heart was very heavy, but the soldiers took it as their duty to obey the order, so no one refused. The soldiers were divided into groups of two, carrying 15-inch grenades, waiting for the Soviet tanks to approach, and jumping out of the trenches to throw the grenades in front of the vehicle tracks. But this is not an attack at all, but a suicide, the grenade does little damage to the tank, but the debris it produces can cause serious damage to people.
After the battle began, the soldiers rushed towards the Soviet chariot with grenades, and some of them were shattered by the machine guns on the chariot before they could get closer, and even if they came to the front, they successfully threw the grenade over, and only shook the tracks of the chariot when they exploded, and did not cause any damage to the Soviet chariot at all, but those who did not have time to escape were killed.
Although the Japanese army also had some chariots, but in the face of the Heavy Tanks of the Soviet Army, it was like a child encountering a sumo wrestler, and the artillery of the Japanese tanks hit a small pit in the Soviet tanks at most, but the Shells of the Soviet Tanks hit and the Japanese tanks exploded in an instant. Many soldiers who used chariots to cover themselves died in the explosion of their chariots.
Toshizo said: If you watch a War Movie made in Japan, when fighting, the commander will rush to the front with a katana, in fact, this is all a lie. As soon as the war began, the commanders who had issued the orders took refuge first, and they watched in a safe place with binoculars as the soldiers went to their deaths one by one. I think that such a war is not worth sacrificing at all, we are not on the same level as the Soviet army, the Soviet army is all automatic rifles, while the Japanese soldiers mostly use the Type 38 rifle produced in Meiji 38, as well as some carbines, and the commander deceives the recruits, saying that although the Soviet weapons are automated, their marksmanship is very bad, and the range of the automated weapons is very poor, not enough to hurt the soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire. As a result, after the two sides fought, they did not know that the automatic rifle in the Hands of the Soviet Army fired a burst of strafing, so that the Japanese army could not even lift its head, and the Type 38 rifle became a burning stick in front of the Soviet weapons.
He also said: Although I realized that the Japanese army was bound to lose, I still encouraged other soldiers to jump out of the trenches and fight. At my instigation, a two-man team rushed in first with the grenade, and they managed to reach the Soviet tank, dropped the grenade, turned around and ran. The explosion sounded immediately, and the Soviet tank was not damaged and continued to advance towards us. The two poor guys, however, were not able to escape, and were blown to pieces by the artillery fire from Soviet tanks. Soviet artillery fire blew up our positions for almost a whole day, and when the artillery stopped, I dropped my gun and ran into the mountains, and although I became a deserter, I survived. Soon after, I came out and surrendered, and the war was finally over...