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Type 95 Ha-Go light tank, 1st Ind. Company, 1st Infantry Division, Leyte, December 1944. The Type 95 tanks on Leyte came from the 2nd Armored Division and were finished in the simplified 1942 scheme. This standard three-color finish consisted of “parched grass” primer corresponding to DIC350 (Dai-Nippon Ink and Chemicals industrial color standard) and roughly corresponding to the Wehrmacht 1943 dark yellow color. This was a rust-preventive paint and was even supposed to be applied over the tracks. The two principal camouflage colors were a dark olive which ranged from a dark olive green to an olive drab shade corresponding to DIC510/ DIC531; and a dark mahogany brown, corresponding to DIC521. No markings were evident on the tanks of this company, though it may have carried the standard regimental marking of the 10th Tank Regiment from which it was detached.

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