6th Army (Japanese Empire)

6th Army
Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go tank captured by Soviet troops after the Battle of Chalchin Gol
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 Battle of Chalchin Gol Second Sino-Japanese War
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
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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jowett, p. 13
2. ↑ Yenne, p. 58
3. ^ Yenne, p. 235

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Ogisu is the family name, Rippei the first name.