6th Army (Japanese Empire)
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Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go tank captured by Soviet troops after the Battle of Chalchin Gol |
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active | August 4, 1939 to August 15, 1945 |
Country | Japanese Empire |
Armed forces | Japanese armed forces |
Armed forces | Japanese army |
Branch of service | infantry |
Type | corps |
Strength | approx. 40,000 |
Location | Manchuria |
Nickname | Mamoru ( 守 , "protection") |
Butcher | Japanese-Soviet border conflict |
Supreme command | |
list of | Commander in chief |
The 6th Army ( Japanese 第 6 軍 , Dai-roku-gun ) was a major unit of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1939 to 1945 . Your Tsūshōgō code (military code name) was protection ( 守 , Mamoru ).
history
The 6th Army was set up on August 4, 1939 under the command of Lieutenant General Ogisu Rippei in Manchuria as a garrison unit and was subordinate to the Kwantung Army . It consisted of the 23rd Division and the 8th Border Guard Unit and was instrumental in the Battle of Chalchin Gol in September 1939 , in which it suffered heavy losses. During the fighting, the 2nd Division was briefly assigned to her as a strategic reserve. After that she stayed in Manchuria and served as a training unit.
Towards the end of the war, the 6th Army in was Hangzhou in the province of Zhejiang dissolved.
Commander in chief
Surname | From | To | |
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1. | Lieutenant General Ogisu Rippei | August 1, 1939 | November 6, 1939 |
2. | Lieutenant General Yasui Tōji | November 6, 1939 | October 15, 1941 |
3. | General Kita Seiichi | October 15, 1941 | March 1, 1943 |
4th | Lieutenant General Ishiguro Teizo | March 1, 1943 | January 7, 1944 |
5. | Lieutenant General Sogawa Jirō | January 7, 1944 | September 1945 |
literature
- Victor Madej: Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945. Game Publishing, 1981, OCLC 833591372 , OCLC 833591376 .
- Bill Yenne: The Imperial Japanese Army: The Invincible Years 1941–42. Osprey Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-7820-0932-0
- Philip Jowett: The Japanese Army 1931-45 (1). Osprey Publishing, 2002, ISBN 978-1-8417-6353-8
Web links
- 第 6 軍. Organization of IJA, accessed December 29, 2014 . , Japanese
- Battle of Khalkhin Gol (II). Shanghai 1937, Retrieved December 28, 2014 . , English