10th Army (Japanese Empire)

10th Army
Soldiers of the 10th Army march into Nanking, December 1937
active	October 20, 1937 to February 14, 1938
Country	Japanese Empire
Armed forces	Japanese armed forces
Armed forces	Japanese army
Branch of service	infantry
Type	corps
Strength	approx. 100,000
Insinuation	Central China Regional Army
Location	Shanghai
Butcher	Second Sino-Japanese War Battle for Nanking
Supreme command
list of	Commander in chief

The 10th Army ( Japanese 第 10 軍 , Dai-jū-gun ) was a major unit of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1937 to 1938 .

history

The 10th Army was set up on October 20, 1937 by the Daihon'ei under the command of Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke as reinforcement for the Shanghai Expeditionary Army fighting in the Second Battle of Shanghai . It consisted of the 6th Division , the newly formed 18th and 114th Division , a detachment of the 5th Division under Noboru Kunisaki, which was deployed in northern China at the time, and the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment.

Soldiers of the 10th Army land in Hangzhou Bay, southeast of Shanghai, November 1937.

On November 5, 1937, the 10th Army landed in Hangzhou Bay, southeast of Shanghai, and on November 7, it was combined with the Shanghai Expeditionary Army to form the Central China Regional Army .

After the end of the fighting for Shanghai at the end of November 1937, the army advanced towards Nanking , the capital of the Republic of China . From December 1, she took part in the Battle of Nanking . After taking the city, units of the 10th Army took part in the Nanking massacre .

The army, like the Shanghai Expeditionary Army, was disbanded in Nanking on February 14, 1938. The units subordinate to her were divided between the Northern China Regional Army under Terauchi Hisaichi and the Central China Expedition Army under Hata Shunroku, which was newly formed from the Central China Regional Army .

Commander in chief

	Surname	From	To
Commander in chief	Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke	October 20, 1937	February 14, 1938
chief of staff	Lieutenant General Tanabe Moritake	October 20, 1937	February 14, 1938

Subordinate units

• 6th division
• 18th division
• 114th Division
• Kunisaki Brigade
  • 9th Infantry Brigade ( 5th Division )
    • 11th Infantry Regiment
    • 41st Infantry Regiment
  • Parts of the 5th Mountain Artillery Regiment
  • Parts of the 5th Cavalry Regiment
  • Parts of the 5th Engineer Regiment
  • Parts of the 5th Transport Regiment
• 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment
  • 13th Heavy Field Artillery Regiment (24x Type 4 15 cm howitzers )
  • 14th Heavy Field Artillery Regiment (24x Type 4 15 cm howitzers)
• 9. Independent Light Tank Company
• 2nd Independent Mountain Artillery Regiment

literature

• Victor Madej: Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945. Game Publishing, 1981, OCLC 833591372 , OCLC 833591376 (English).
• Bill Yenne: The Imperial Japanese Army: The Invincible Years 1941-42 Osprey Publishing, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-1-7820-0932-0 (English).
• Philip Jowett: The Japanese Army 1931-45 (Part 1) . Osprey Publishing, Oxford 2002, ISBN 978-1-84176-353-8 (English).

Web links

• 第 １０ 軍. Organization of IJA, accessed December 30, 2014 (Japanese). 
• Marco Polo Bridge. Qingdao News, accessed December 30, 2014 (Chinese). 
• Japanese 10th Army Shanghai Operations October 20, 1937. http://usacac.army.mil , accessed December 19, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Madej, p. 148
2. ↑ 第 10 軍. (No longer available online.) Organization of IJA, archived from the original on April 20, 2015 ; accessed on December 30, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Yenne, p. 54
4. ↑ Marco Polo Bridge. Quingdao News, accessed December 30, 2014 . 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Yanagawa is the family name, Heisuke the first name.