South China Regional Army

South China Regional Army
active	February 9, 1940 to June 28, 1941
Country	Japanese Empire
Armed forces	Japanese armed forces
Armed forces	Japanese army
Branch of service	infantry
Type	army
Strength	approx. 125,000
Insinuation	China Expeditionary Army
Location	Canton
Nickname	Nami ( 波 , "wave")
Butcher	Second Sino-Japanese War Japanese invasion of French Indochina
Supreme command
list of	Commander in chief

The South China Regional Army ( Japanese 支那 方面軍 , Minami Shina hōmengun ) was one of the regional armies of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1940 to 1941 . Your Tsūshōgō code (military code name) was Welle ( 波 , Nami ).

history

The South China Regional Army was set up on February 9, 1940 under the command of General Andō Rikichi in Canton and was subordinate to the China Expeditionary Army . The main task of this army was to provide the garrison for the Japanese conquered Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi .

On September 5, 1940, parts of the South China Regional Army occupied the north of the colonial overseas territory administered by the Vichy government during the Japanese invasion of French Indochina in order to cut off the supply routes of the national Chinese on the border with French Indochina . The agreement between the Japanese Empire and the Vichy government provided that Japan was allowed to station 6,000 soldiers in the country. However, this agreement was undermined by General Ando, ​​who had parts of the 5th Division invade French Indochina from Guangdong . Andō was then relieved of his post on October 5, 1940, Lieutenant General Ushiroku Jun took up.

The South China Regional Army was disbanded on June 16, 1941 and most of its troops were reassigned to the China Expeditionary Army.

Army command

Commander in chief

	Surname	From	To
1.	Lieutenant General Andō Rikichi	February 10, 1940	October 5, 1940
2.	Lieutenant General Ushiroku Jun	October 5, 1940	June 26, 1941

Chiefs of Staff

	Surname	From	To
1.	Major General Nemoto Hiroshi	February 10, 1940	March 1, 1941
2.	Major General Katō Rimpei	March 1, 1941	June 28, 1941

Subordinate units

• Indochina Expeditionary Army
• 22nd Army
  • Imperial Guard
  • 5th division
• 18th division
• 38th Division
• 104th Division
• 19. Independent Mixed Brigade
• 1st Independent Infantry Brigade

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
• Richard Fuller: Japanese Generals 1926–1945. 1st edition. Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, PA 2011, ISBN 978-0-7643-3754-3 .

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 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Madej, p. 4
2. ^ Richard Fuller: Japanese Generals 1926–1945. 2001, p. 28.

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