The Type 1 Ho-Ha was a half-track armoured personnel carrier used in limited numbers by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. It was developed in 1941 after the army asked for a vehicle that could carry an infantry squad to the battlefield protected from small arms fire, and Hino Motors built it, with mass production starting in 1944. The design was based on the German Sd.Kfz. 251/1 but without that vehicle's overlapped road wheels: it had a pair of road wheels at the front and short caterpillar tracks at the rear, a rear door copied from the German two-leaf pattern, and armour up to 8 mm thick. Standard armament was three Type 97 light machine guns. It served in China and in the Philippines in 1944, and after the war some were converted to flat-bed vehicles for reconstruction work. The total number built is unknown.
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Development and history, production
Mass production began in 1944 with the Type 1 Ho-Ha being an addition to the Type 1 Ho-Ki
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was a half-track armoured personnel carrier (APC)
Development and history, builder
The half-tracked Type 1 Ho-Ha was built by Hino Motors.
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was a half-track armoured personnel carrier (APC) used in limited numbers by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.
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was a half-track armoured personnel carrier (APC) used in limited numbers by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.
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was a half-track armoured personnel carrier (APC)
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