10th Regional Army

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10th Regional Army

Taiwan Army Headquarters of IJA.JPG

Headquarters of the Taiwan Army, later the 10th Regional Army in Taipei
active September 29, 1944 to August 15, 1945
Country JapanJapan Japanese Empire
Armed forces JapanJapan (war flag) Japanese armed forces
Armed forces JapanJapan (war flag) Japanese army
Branch of service infantry
Type army
Strength approx. 250,000
Insinuation Daihon'ei
Location Taipei
Nickname Wan ( 湾 , "bay")
Butcher Pacific War
Supreme command
list of Commander in chief

The 10th Regional Army ( Japanese 第 10 方面軍 , Dai-jū hōmengun ) was from 1944 to 1945 one of the regional armies of the Imperial Japanese Army . Your Tsūshōgō code (military code name) was Bucht ( 湾 , Wan , see also Taiwan ).

history

In the second half of 1944, the Japanese high command (upgraded Imperial General Headquarters ) for the anticipated landing of the Allies by these Operation Downfall  was called. To this end they pulled troops mainly from Manchuria and the Chinese mainland to the mainland Japan and Formosa back. The Taiwan Army stationed on the island was renamed on September 29, 1944 under the command of General Andō Rikichi in the 10th Regional Army and received extensive reinforcements. The 40th Army was stationed directly on Formosa, while the 32nd Army took up position on the island of Okinawa, about 350 km away . Overall, the 10 regional army consisted of eight infantry - divisions , seven Independent Mixed Brigade and the 8th Air Division .

While the units on Formosa were passed over because of the Allied strategy of island hopping and saw the end of World War II without a fight , the 32nd Army was less fortunate. It was almost completely destroyed during the Battle of Okinawa .

After Japan surrendered , the 10th Regional Army disbanded independently by September 1945. Andō and his staff surrendered on October 25, 1945 to the Chinese General Chen Yi, who had landed on Taiwan .

Commander in chief

Surname From To
Commander in chief General Andō Rikichi September 22, 1944 August 15, 1945
chief of staff Lieutenant General Isayama Haruki September 22, 1944 August 15, 1945

Subordinate units

The 10th Regional Army was composed as follows in early 1945:

(*) The 9th Division was transferred to the 40th Army on Formosa in January 1940

literature

  • Victor Madej: Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945. Game Publishing, 1981, OCLC 833591372 , OCLC 833591376 .
  • Philip Jowett: The Japanese Army 1931-1945 (2) Osprey Publishing, 2002, ISBN 978-1-84176-354-5
  • Leland Ness: Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945. Helion & Company, 2014, ISBN 978-1-909982-00-0 .
  • Charles Pettibone: The organization and order or battle of militaries in World War II: Volume VII: Germany's and Imperial Japan's allies & puppet states Trafford, 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Madej, p. 3
  2. ↑ a b c Ness, p. 48
  3. ↑ Japanese Forces Formosa, January 1, 1945. (No longer available online.) United States Army Combined Arms Center, archived from the original on June 9, 2015 ; accessed on June 8, 2015 .
  4. ↑ C. Peter Chen: Trip to Taipei, Nov. 5, 2006. In: World War II Database. Retrieved June 14, 2010 .
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Andō is the family name, Rikichi the first name.