China Expeditionary Army
China Expeditionary Army |
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active | September 12, 1939 to August 15, 1945 |
Country | Japan |
Armed forces | Japanese armed forces |
Armed forces | Japanese army |
Branch of service | infantry |
Type | Main army ( army group ) |
Strength | 600,000-800,000 |
Location | Nanjing |
Butcher | Second Sino-Japanese War |
The China Expeditionary Army ( Japanese 支那 派遣 軍 , Shina hakengun , here with the derogatory term for China adopted from the West) was a main army ( army group ) of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II . It was active from September 12, 1939 to August 15, 1945 and conquered large areas of the Republic of China . Her Tsūshōgō (military code name) was CGA .
The China Expeditionary Army is not to be confused with the Central China Expeditionary Army .
history
The China Expeditionary Army (CEA) was created in September 1939 by merging the Central China Expeditionary Army with the Northern China Regional Army and had its headquarters in Nanjing throughout the war . The Northern China Regional Army remained as an association and was only subordinate to the CEA, its headquarters were in Beijing . The CEA was responsible for all military operations in China. At the height of the war it numbered over 800,000 men, at the end of the war it was still 620,000 men. In 1943 the situation of the Japanese in the Pacific War worsened and CEA troops were withdrawn and sent to fight the Allies. As a result, the Japanese lost more and more ground in China. In addition, they had to fight partisans. In 1944, through reinforcements from the Kwantung Army , the CEA mobilized nearly 400,000 men for their largest operation, Operation Ichi-gō , which was the last Japanese success in China. After the capitulation of Japan in August 1945, the main army's troops kept their weapons until they were disarmed by the National Revolutionary Army , in order to prevent a communist takeover of the occupied territories.
Commanders
Surname | From | To | |
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1. | General Nishio Toshizō | September 22, 1939 | March 1, 1941 |
2. | Gensui (Field Marshal) Hata Shunroku | March 1, 1941 | November 23, 1944 |
3. | General Okamura Yasuji | March 1, 1941 | September 9, 1945 |
Subordinate units
The following units were subordinate to the China Expeditionary Army:
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Northern China Regional Army
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1st Army
- 114th Division
- 3rd Mixed Infantry Brigade
- 10th Mixed Infantry Brigade
- 14th Mixed Infantry Brigade
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12th Army
- 110th division
- 115th Division
- 3rd Panzer Division
- 4th Cavalry Brigade
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Mongolia Garrison Army
- 118th Division
- 2. Independent Mixed Brigade
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43rd Army
- 47th division
- 1. Independent Mixed Brigade
- 5th Mixed Infantry Brigade
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1st Army
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6th Regional Army
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6th Army
- 70th division
- 133rd Division
- 62nd Mixed Infantry Brigade
- 89th Mixed Infantry Brigade
- 91st Mixed Infantry Brigade
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11th Army
- 58th Division
- 22nd Mixed Infantry Brigade
- 88th Mixed Infantry Brigade
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13th Army
- 60th division
- 61st Division
- 65th division
- 69th Division
- 161st division
- 90th Mixed Infantry Brigade
- 92nd Mixed Infantry Brigade
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20th Army
- 64th division
- 68th Division
- 116th Division
- 81st Mixed Infantry Brigade
- 82nd Mixed Infantry Brigade
- 86th Mixed Infantry Brigade
- 87th Mixed Infantry Brigade
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23rd Army
- 104th Division
- 129th division
- 130th Division
- 23rd Mixed Infantry Brigade
- 8th Independent Infantry Brigade
- 13th Independent Infantry Brigade
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6th Army
- 3rd division
- 13th division
- 27th Division
- 34th division
- 40th division
- 131st Division
- 1st Air Brigade
- 13th Air Brigade
literature
- Victor Madej: Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945. Game Publishing, 1981, OCLC 833591372 , OCLC 833591376 .
- Philip Jowett: "The Japanese Army 1931-45 (1)" Osprey Publishing, 2002, ISBN 978-1-84176-353-8
- Gordon Rottman, "Japanese Army in World War II, Conquest of the Pacific" Osprey Publishing, 2005, ISBN 978-1-84176-789-5
Web links
- 総 軍 ・ 方面軍. Organization of IJA, accessed January 2, 2015 . , Japanese
- List of Higher Echeron Army Headquarters. Organizations of IJA & N, accessed January 1, 2015 .
- Japanese China Expeditionary Army Forces in China, Battle of Chekiang-Kiangsi, Late April 1942. http://usacac.army.mil , accessed December 19, 2017 .
- Japanese China Expeditionary Army Forces in China, Late April 1945. http://usacac.army.mil , accessed December 19, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Rottman, p. 9