27th Army (Japanese Empire)

27th Army
Soldiers during an exercise on Chishima , Kuril Islands
active	March 16, 1944 to February 1, 1945
Country	Japanese Empire
Armed forces	Japanese armed forces
Armed forces	Japanese army
Branch of service	infantry
Type	corps
Strength	approx. 80,000
Insinuation	5th Regional Army
Location	Etorofu
Nickname	Hokubu ( 北部 , "Northern")
Butcher	Pacific War Operation Downfall
Supreme command
list of	Commander in chief

Kuril Islands with Russian names (in English transliteration ) with Iturup = Etorufu

The 27th Army ( Japanese 第 27 軍 , Dai-nijūnana-gun ) was a major unit of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1944 to 1945 . Her Tsūshōgō code (military code name) was Northern ( 北部 , Hokubu ) or Hokubu 100 .

history

The 27th Army was formed under the command of Lieutenant General Terakura Shōzō on March 16, 1944 and was under the 5th Regional Army . You were subordinate to the 42nd and 91st Infantry Divisions as well as two amphibious brigades and two independent mixed brigades . The headquarters of the army was on Etorofu , an island in the Kuril archipelago.

The task of the 27th Army was to arm itself against an Allied invasion .

On February 1, 1945, the Daihon'ei (Japanese Headquarters) regrouped the troops stationed on the Kuril Islands. The 27th Army was disbanded and its subordinate units of the 5th Regional Army directly subordinated.

Commander in chief

	Surname	From	To
Commander in chief	Lieutenant General Terakura Shōzō	March 10, 1944	February 1, 1945
chief of staff	Lieutenant General Suzuki Keiji	March 10, 1944	February 1, 1945

Subordinate units

• 27. Army Staff
• 42nd division
• 91st Division
• 3rd Amphibious Brigade
• 4th Amphibious Brigade
• 43rd Independent Mixed Brigade
• 69th Independent Mixed Brigade

literature

• Victor Madej: Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945. Game Publishing, 1981, OCLC 833591372 , OCLC 833591376 .
• Gordon L. Rottman : Japanese Army in World War II (The South Pacific and New Guinea, 1942-43). Osprey Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84176-870-0 .
• Leland Ness: Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945. Helion & Company, 2014, ISBN 978-1-909982-00-0 .
• Philip Jowett: The Japanese Army. Part 2: 1931-45. Osprey Publishing, 2002, ISBN 1-84176-354-3 .
• Gordon L. Rottman: World War II Pacific Island Guide: A Geo-Military Study. Greenwood, 2001, ISBN 0-313-31395-4 .

Web links

• 第 27 軍. Organization of IJA, accessed December 30, 2014 (Japanese). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} V. Madej: Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945. 1981, p. 4.
2. ^ G. Rottman: World War II Pacific Island Guide. 2001, p. 457.
3. ^ P. Jowett: The Japanese Army. Part 2: 1931-45. 2002, p. 15.

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Terakura is the family name, Shōzō the first name.