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24th Mixed Brigade (Imperial Japanese Army)
The 24th Mixed Brigade was a military unit of the Imperial Japanese Army. History This Mixed Brigade was sent by the 12th Division from Japan to the Battle of Shanghai The Battle of Shanghai () was the first of the twenty-two major engagements fought between the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Republic of China (ROC) and the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) of the Empire of Japan at the beginning of th ... in 1932.Madej, W. Victor. ''Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945'', 2 vols.Allentown, PA: 1981 Organization *24th Mixed Brigade – ?, 3,000 troops ** 2nd Battalion / 14th Infantry Regiment ** 1st Battalion / 24th Infantry Regiment ** 1st Battalion / 46th Infantry Regiment ** 1st Battalion / 48th Infantry Regiment ** 1 Squadron Cavalry ** 2nd Battalion / 3rd Independent Mountain Gun Regiment (two Batteries) ** 2nd Company / 18th Engineer Battalion See also * Mixed Brigades (Imperial Japanese Army) * List of Japanese Mixed Brigades References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial Japanese Army
The was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945. It was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of the Army, both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emperor of Japan as supreme commander of the army and the Imperial Japanese Navy. Later an Inspectorate General of Aviation became the third agency with oversight of the army. During wartime or national emergencies, the nominal command functions of the emperor would be centralized in an Imperial General Headquarters (IGHQ), an ad hoc body consisting of the chief and vice chief of the Army General Staff, the Minister of the Army, the chief and vice chief of the Naval General Staff, the Inspector General of Aviation, and the Inspector General of Military Training. History Origins (1868–1871) In the mid-19th century, Japan had no unified national army and the country was made up of feudal domains (''han'') with the Tokugawa shogunate (''bakufu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mixed Brigades (Imperial Japanese Army)
The Mixed Brigade was one of the military units of the Imperial Japanese Army. The IJA had two types of Mixed Brigades. Mixed Brigades The first type was known as Mixed Brigade. This was the detachment of an infantry brigade from an IJA Infantry Division with various Divisional support units or sometimes units attached from its Corps or Army. This provided a combined arms force of infantry, artillery, cavalry and other support units.Madej, W. Victor. ''Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945'' volsAllentown, PA: 1981 Independent Mixed Brigades The second type was the Independent Mixed Brigade. These were detachments made of various units detached from other units or independent support units formed together in a brigade. The first two of these Independent Mixed Brigades, formed by the Kwangtung Army in the 1930s was the IJA 1st Independent Mixed Brigade and the IJA 11th Independent Mixed Brigade. These brigades were organized in unique manners and one of them, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
The was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army. Its tsūshōgō code name was the , and its military symbol was 12D. The 12th Division was one of six new infantry divisions raised by the Imperial Japanese Army after the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895). The division received its colors on 1 October 1898 and disbanded in September 1945. Its troops were recruited primarily from communities in the northern portion of the island of KyūshūKowner, '' Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War'', p. 107. and it was originally headquartered within Kokura Castle (now part of the city of Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka) Action During the Russo-Japanese War, under the command of Lieutenant General Inoue Hikaru, the division deployed to Manchuria as part of the 1st army. It returned to Kokura after the war, and was deployed again to the continent during the Japanese intervention in Siberia from 19 August 1918. The divisional arsenal in Kokura Castle was used meanwhile to su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Japanese Mixed Brigades
The Japanese Imperial Army had divisional mixed brigades, which were the detachment of a brigade from an infantry division with various divisional support units or units attached from its corps or army. This provided a combined arms force of infantry, artillery, cavalry and other support units. List of Japanese Imperial Army Mixed Brigades *Guards Mixed Brigade * 2nd Guards Mixed Brigade (Japan) * 4th Mixed Brigade (Imperial Japanese Army) – Manchuria 1931–1932 * 8th Mixed Brigade (Imperial Japanese Army) – Manchuria 1931–1932 * 14th Mixed Brigade (Imperial Japanese Army) – Manchuria 1931–1932 * 15th Mixed Brigade (Imperial Japanese Army) ** Katayama Detachment – Manchukuo 1939 * 24th Mixed Brigade (Imperial Japanese Army) – Shanghai 1932 * 33rd Mixed Brigade (Imperial Japanese Army) – China 1933 * 39th Mixed Brigade (Imperial Japanese Army) – Manchuria 1931 * Karafuto Mixed Brigade (Imperial Japanese Army) – Sakhalin 1939 – February 1945 (reformed to 88th d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese World War II Brigades
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japonicum * Japonicus * Japanese studies Japanese studies (Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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