34th Division (Japanese Empire)
34th division |
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active | February 7, 1939 to 1945 |
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Armed forces |
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Branch of service | infantry |
Type | division |
Strength | approx. 20,000 |
Insinuation |
11th Army 20th Army |
Location | Osaka |
Nickname | Tsubaki-heidan ( 椿 兵 団 , "Camellia Division") |
Butcher | Second Sino-Japanese War |
The 34th Division ( Japanese 第 34 師 団 , Dai-sanjūyon Shidan ) was a division of the Imperial Japanese Army , which was established in 1939 and dissolved in 1945. Your Tsūshōgō code (military code name) was Camellia Division ( 椿 兵 団 , Tsubaki-heidan ) or Tsubaki 6840 .
History of unity
The 34th Division was on 7 February 1941, the command of Lieutenant General Seki Kameharu as Type B "Standard" Division as Triangular Division set up and consisted of the 34th Infantry - Brigade (216th, 217th and 218th Regiment) and the 34. Enlightenment - regiment , the 34th field artillery regiment and the 34th pioneer - and transport regiment. The headquarters of the 20,000 strong division was in Osaka , Japanese Empire .
The division was shipped to the theater of the Second Sino-Japanese War in July 1939 after being deployed . There it was used mainly in Nanchang as a garrison unit in the hinterland and was under the 11th Army .
In early 1944 the division was moved to Hunan Province and took part in Operation Ichi-gō . In April 1945 the division took part in the Battle of West Hunan as part of the 20th Army .
In mid-1945 the division moved to Jiangxi Province , where it was disbanded in September 1945.
structure
In February 1939 it was set up as a triangular type B - "Standard" division as follows:
- 34th Infantry Division Staff (350 men)
- 34th Infantry Brigade Staff (100 men)
- 216th Infantry Regiment (3845 men)
- 217th Infantry Regiment (3845 men)
- 218th Infantry Regiment (3845 men)
- 34th Reconnaissance Regiment (950 men)
- 34th Field Artillery Regiment (2100 men; 36 75 mm field guns Type 90 )
- 34th Engineer Regiment (956 men)
- 34.Signal unit (240)
- 34th Transport Regiment (1810 men)
- 34th Supply Company (110 men)
- 34th Field Hospital (two field hospitals with 250 men each)
- 34th water supply and treatment unit (235 men)
- 34th Veterinary Hospital (114 men)
- 34th Medical Unit (1110 men)
- 34th Infantry Brigade Staff (100 men)
Total strength: 20,110 men
guide
Division commanders
- Seki Kameharu, Lieutenant General: March 9, 1939 - December 2, 1940
- Ōgamo Shigeru, Lieutenant General: December 2, 1940 - October 8, 1942
- Hata Hikosaburō , Lieutenant General: October 8, 1942 - March 25, 1943
- Ban Takeo, Lieutenant General: March 25, 1943 - August 1945
See also
literature
- Victor Madej: Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945. Game Publishing, 1981, OCLC 833591372 , OCLC 833591376 .
- John Underwood: "The Japanese Order of Battle in World War II, Vol I" The Nafziger Collection, Inc., 1999, ISBN 978-1-58545-044-2
- Leland Ness: Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945. Helion & Company, 2014, ISBN 978-1-909982-00-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Madej, p. 61
- ↑ Japanese Officer. (No longer available online.) United States Army Combined Arms Center, archived from the original on September 28, 2015 ; Retrieved August 3, 2015 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Underwood, p. 21