5th Army (Japanese Empire)
5th Army |
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active | January 15, 1905 to August 15, 1945 |
Country | Japanese Empire |
Armed forces | Japanese armed forces |
Armed forces | Japanese army |
Branch of service | infantry |
Type | corps |
Strength | 15,000 |
Nickname | Shiro ( 城 , "castle") |
Butcher | Russo-Japanese War |
Supreme command | |
list of | Commander in chief |
The 5th Army ( Japanese 第 5 軍 , Dai-go-gun ) was a large unit of the Imperial Japanese Army . It was erected and demobilized three times between 1905 and 1945. Your Tsūshōgō code (military code name) was Burg ( 城 , Shiro ).
history
1905 to 1906
The 5th Army was formed on January 15, 1905 under the command of General Kawamura Kageaki . It was only erected shortly before the end of the Russo-Japanese War and took part in the Battle of Mukden . It consisted only of the 11th Division and a few reserve units and was therefore smaller than ordinary Japanese armies, which were mostly about the size of a corps . In a large-scale encircling maneuver on the Japanese right flank, the 5th Army penetrated about 50 km behind the Russian lines during the Battle of Mukden, which forced the Russian units to retreat.
After the fighting ended, the 5th Army was demobilized in January 1906.
1937 to 1945
On December 7, 1937, the 5th Army was reorganized in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in the course of the Second Sino-Japanese War . Similar to the 3rd and 4th Army, the 5th Army was stationed on the Manchurian-Soviet border to show strength against the Soviet Union after several border incidents had already occurred. The 5th Army was briefly disbanded between February and May 1938, but on May 19, 1938 it came under the direct command of the Japanese General Staff . Then she was assigned to the 1st Regional Army, which was part of the Kwantung Army . As the war progressed, the focus of the fighting shifted, leading to the withdrawal of materials and troops from Manchukuo, leaving the army weak.
Towards the end of the Pacific War , the battle-hardened attacked on August 8, 1945 Red Army in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria Manchukuo and the Japanese Empire to. The 5th Army, which was poorly equipped in terms of quantity and quality, could not offer sustained resistance. Large parts of the army were overrun, some were able to withdraw as far as the Sino-Korean border. The 5th Army was officially disbanded in Jixi in September 1945.
Commander in chief
Surname | From | To | |
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1. | General Kawamura Kageaki | January 15, 1905 | January 1906 |
demobilized | January 1906 | December 8, 1937 | |
2. | General Furushō Motoo | December 8, 1937 | February 26, 1938 |
demobilized | February 26, 1938 | May 19, 1938 | |
3. | General Doihara Kenji | May 19, 1938 | September 28, 1940 |
4th | Lieutenant General Hada Jūichi | September 28, 1940 | October 15, 1941 |
5. | Lieutenant General Iimura Jō | October 15, 1941 | October 29, 1943 |
6th | Lieutenant General Uemura Toshimichi | October 29, 1943 | June 27, 1944 |
7th | Lieutenant General Shimizu Noritsune | June 27, 1944 | September 1945 |
literature
- Gordon L. Rottman : The Japanese Army in World War II. Osprey Publishing, Oxford 2005, ISBN 1-84176-789-1 , p. 9 ff.
- Bernard Jowett: The Japanese Army 1931-45. Volume 2: 1942-45. Osprey Publishing, Oxford 1999, ISBN 1-84176-354-3 .
- Victor Madej: Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945. Game Publishing, 1981, OCLC 833591372 , OCLC 833591376 .
- Geoffrey Jukes: The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 Osprey Publishing, 2002, ISBN 1-84176-446-9 .
- Rotem Kowner : The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-6841-0 .
Web links
- IJA 5th Army. niehorster.org, accessed October 22, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kowner, Rotem; The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War, p. 46