34th Division (Japanese Empire)

34th division
active	February 7, 1939 to 1945
Country	Japanese Empire
Armed forces	Japanese armed forces
Armed forces	Japanese army
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 Operation Ichi-gō Battle for Zaoyang-Yichang Battle for West Hunan

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)

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

• Divisions of the Imperial Japanese Army

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

1. ↑ ^{a b} Madej, p. 61
2. ↑ 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.  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Underwood, p. 21