58th Army (Japanese Empire)

58th Army
active	April 7, 1945 to September 15, 1945
Country	Japanese Empire
Armed forces	Japanese armed forces
Armed forces	Japanese army
Branch of service	infantry
Type	corps
Strength	approx. 60,000
Insinuation	17th Regional Army
Location	Jejudo
Nickname	Toride ( 砦 , "fortress")
Butcher	Second World War Operation Downfall
Supreme command
list of	Commander in chief

The 58th Army ( Japanese 第 58 軍 , Dai-gojū-hachi-gun ) was a major unit of the Imperial Japanese Army in 1945 . Your Tsūshōgō code (military code name) was fortress ( 砦 , toride ).

history

On April 7, 1945, Daihon'ei (Japanese Headquarters) set up the 58th Army under Lieutenant General Nagatsu Sahishige in anticipation of an Allied invasion of the main Japanese islands and the offshore islands . She was stationed with three divisions , two independent mixed brigades and some artillery on the Korean island of Jejudo .

The 58th Army was disbanded on August 15, 1945, without being involved in any fighting.

Commander in chief

commander

	Surname	From	To
1.	Lieutenant General Nagatsu Sahishige	April 7, 1945	August 15, 1945

Chiefs of Staff

	Surname	From	To
1.	Major General Katō Yoshihide	April 6, 1945	August 19, 1945
2.	Major General Kisaki Hisashi	August 19, 1945	September 1, 1945

Subordinate units

• 58th Army Staff
• 96th Division
• 111th Division
• 121st Division
• 108th Independent Mixed Brigade
• 109th Independent Mixed Brigade
• 12th Artillery Brigade
  • 6th Independent Field Artillery Regiment
  • 20th Independent Mountain Artillery Regiment
  • 16th Heavy Field Artillery Regiment
  • 29th Independent Mortar Battalion
  • 1st Independent Anti-Tank 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 .

Web links

• 第 58 軍. Organization of IJA, accessed December 30, 2014 (Japanese). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ V. Madej: Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945. 1981, p. 5.

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