30th Army (Japanese Empire)

30th Army
Headquarters of the 30th Army, which at the same time the headquarters of the Kwantung Army was
active	July 30, 1945 to September 1945
Country	Japanese Empire
Armed forces	Japanese armed forces
Armed forces	Japanese army
Branch of service	infantry
Type	corps
Strength	approx. 100,000
Insinuation	3rd regional army
Location	Hsinking
Nickname	Hashi ( 敏 , "The Fast")
Butcher	Second World War Operation August Storm
Supreme command
list of	Commander in chief

The 30th Army ( Japanese 第 30 軍 , Dai-sanjū-gun ) was a major unit of the Imperial Japanese Army in 1945 . Her tsūshōgō code (military code name) was The Fast ( 敏 , Hashi ).

history

On July 30, 1945 the Daihon'ei (Japanese Headquarters) set up the 30th Army under Lieutenant General Iida Shōjirō and placed the 39th , 125th , 138th and 148th Infantry Divisions , some artillery units and other smaller units under her . The 100,000-strong army was subordinate to the 3rd Regional Army and had its headquarters in Hsinking . While the 44th Army, which was also subordinate to the 5th Regional Army , was stationed closer to the Soviet border, the core of the 30th Army was in central Manchuria . Except for the 39th Division, which had been formed in 1939, the other divisions were recently formed units with low combat strength and poor equipment.

When the Soviet Union attacked Manchuria in Operation August Storm on August 9, 1945, a few days before the end of the Pacific War , the resistance of the 30th Army quickly collapsed. Most of the Japanese units were destroyed or surrendered by August 15th. The captured Japanese then went into Soviet captivity .

The 30th Army was disbanded in August 1945.

Commander in chief

	Surname	From	To
commander	Lieutenant General Iida Shōjirō	July 30, 1945	August 15, 1945
chief of staff	Lieutenant General Katō Michio	July 29, 1945	August 15, 1945

Subordinate units

• 30th Army Staff
• 39th division
• 125th division
• 138th Division
• 148th Division
• 2nd Pioneer Brigade
• artillery
  • 1st Heavy Field Artillery Regiment
  • 19th Heavy Field Artillery Regiment
  • 7th Independent Field Artillery Battalion
  • 21st Independent Heavy Artillery Battalion
  • 27. Independent Mortar Battalion
• other smaller units

literature

• Victor Madej: Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945. Game Publishing, 1981, OCLC 833591372 , OCLC 833591376 .
• 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 .
• David Glantz: "Soviet Operational and Tactical Combat in Manchuria, 1945: 'August Storm'", Routledge, 2004

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ V. Madej: Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945. 1981, p. 4.
2. ↑ Glantz, p. 172
3. ↑ Glantz, p. 181

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