11th Army (Japanese Empire)

11th Army
Soldiers and Type 94 Te-Ken of the 11th Army march towards Wuhan, October 1938
active	July 4, 1938 to August 15, 1945
Country	Japanese Empire
Armed forces	Japanese armed forces
Armed forces	Japanese army
Branch of service	infantry
Type	corps
Strength	80,000-180,000
Insinuation	Central China Expeditionary Army China Expeditionary Army 6th Regional Army
Location	Wuhan
Butcher	Second Sino-Japanese War Battle for Wuhan Operation Ichi-gō
Supreme command
list of	Commander in chief

The 11th Army ( Japanese 第 11 軍 , Dai-jūichi-gun ) was from 1938 to 1945 a major unit of the Imperial Japanese Army . Your Tsūshōgō code (military code name) was backbone ( 呂 , Ro ) or Ro 5500 .

history

The 11th Army was set up in the Republic of China on July 4, 1938, one year after the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War , under the command of Lieutenant General Okamura Yasuji , and was subordinate to the Central China Expeditionary Army . It consisted of the 6th , 101st and 106th Infantry Divisions , the 5th Heavy Field Artillery Brigade and other smaller units.

As early as June 1938, the 11th Army was involved in combat operations with national Chinese in the Wuhan area and on June 12, 1938 was able to take the airfield of Anqing , Anhui . In the ensuing battle for Wuhan , she was instrumental in the conquest of the city.

From September 1939 she was placed under the newly formed China Expedition Army.

On April 17, 1944, the largest Japanese enterprise, Operation Ichi-gō , began, in which the 11th Army was involved in the 400,000-strong force. After Operation Ichi-gō she was assigned to the 6th Regional Army, which was supposed to secure the newly conquered areas between the Yangtze River and the Yellow River .

It was dissolved on August 14, 1945 near Guilin .

Commander in chief

Commander in chief

	Surname	From	To
1.	Lieutenant General Okamura Yasuji	June 23, 1938	March 9, 1940
2.	Lieutenant General Sonobe Waichirō	March 9, 1940	April 4, 1941
3.	Lieutenant General Anami Korechika	April 4, 1941	July 1, 1942
4th	Lieutenant General Tsukada Osamu	July 1, 1942	December 22, 1942
5.	Lieutenant General Yokoyama Isamu	December 22, 1942	November 22, 1944
6th	Lieutenant General Kozuki Yoshio	November 22, 1944	April 7, 1945
7th	Lieutenant General Kasahara Yukio	April 7, 1945	August 15, 1945

Chiefs of Staff

	Surname	From	To
1.	General Yoshimoto Teiichi	June 20, 1938	January 31, 1939
2.	Lieutenant General Numata Takazō	January 31, 1939	August 1, 1939
3.	Lieutenant General Aoki Junsei	August 1, 1939	March 1, 1941
4th	Major General Kinoshita Isami	March 1, 1941	December 1, 1942
5.	Major General Osonoe Kunio	December 1, 1942	February 7, 1944
6th	Major General Nakayama Sadatake	February 7, 1944	April 23, 1945
7th	Major General Nakayama Sadatake	April 23, 1945	February 7, 1944

Subordinate units

1938

• 6th division
• 101st Division
• 106th Division
• 5th Heavy Field Artillery Brigade

1941

In December 1941, the 11th Army was composed as follows:

• 3rd division
• 6th division
• 13th division
• 34th division
• 36th division
• 40th division
• 14. Independent Mixed Brigade
• 18. Independent Mixed Brigade
• other smaller units

1945

Composition of the army towards the end of the war:

• 34th division
• 58th Division
• 132nd Division
• 22. Independent Mixed Brigade
• 88th Independent Mixed Brigade
• other smaller units

literature

• Victor Madej: Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945. Game Publishing, 1981, OCLC 833591372 , OCLC 833591376 .
• Philip Jowett: "The Japanese Army 1931-45" (1) Osprey Publishing, 2002, ISBN 978-1-84176-353-8
• Philip Jowett: "The Japanese Army 1931-45" (2) Osprey Publishing, 2002, ISBN 978-1-84176-354-5

Web links

• 第 １１ 軍. Organization of IJA, accessed December 30, 2014 .  , Japanese
• Marco Polo Bridge. Quingdao News, accessed December 30, 2014 .  , chinese
• Japanese Forces Battle of Sui-Tsao Late April - Mid-May 1939. (PDF) http://usacac.army.mil/ , accessed December 19, 2017 . 
• Japanese Forces Battle of Southern Hohnan Early January 1940. (PDF) http://usacac.army.mil/ , accessed December 19, 2017 . 
• Japanese Forces Battle of Chekiang - Kiangsi Late April 1942. (PDF) http://usacac.army.mil/ , accessed December 19, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Madej, p. 3
2. ↑ 第 １１ 軍. (No longer available online.) Organization of IJA, archived from the original on April 20, 2015 ; accessed on December 30, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Battle of Wuhan. World War II Database, accessed April 20, 2015 . 
4. ^ Operation Ichigo. World War II Database, accessed April 20, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Joett, Vol. I, S. 15
6. ↑ Joett, Vol. II, p 15

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