The 11th Air Squadron (第十一飛行戦隊 - 11th Hiko Sentai) was flying unit of the

Imperial Japanese Army Air Service The Imperial Japanese Army Air Service (IJAAS) or Imperial Japanese Army Air Force (IJAAF; ja, 大日本帝國陸軍航空部隊, Dainippon Teikoku Rikugun Kōkūbutai, lit=Greater Japan Empire Army Air Corps) was the aviation force of the Im ...

. The unit was established on 31 August 1938 at

Harbin Harbin (; mnc, , v=Halbin; ) is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital and the largest city of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, as well as the second largest city by urban population after Shenyang and largest ...

, Manchuria. The unit saw service in Manchuria during the Manchuria Incident, China during the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Th ...

and Burma, Netherlands East Indies, Indochina, Rabaul, Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Philippines, Formosa and Japan during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. The unit was disbanded at Takahagi, Japan in late 1945.

Aircraft

* Type 91 (December 1937 - June 1942) *

Type 92 Type 92 may refer to: Weapons * Type 92 machine gun * Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun * 7.7mm Type 92 machine-gun cartridge * Type 92 Battalion Gun * Type 92 10 cm Cannon * Type 92 torpedo * Type 92 Handgun Armored cars * Type 92 variant of the ...

(December 1937 - June 1942) * Ki-27 (December 1937 - June 1942) * Ki-43 I (August 1942 - June 1943) *Ki-43 II (July 1943 - February 1944) * Ki-84 (March 1944 - August 1945)

Bases

Manchuria Manchuria is an exonym (derived from the endo demonym " Manchu") for a historical and geographic region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China (Inner Manchuria) and parts of the Russian Far East (Outer Manc ...

Jun 1932 Jun 1939 *Saienjo Nomonhan May 1939 Sep 1939 *Harbin Sep 1939 Oct 1939 *Wuchang China Oct 1939 Dec 1940 *Harbin Dec 1940 Nov 1941 *Kukan Phu Quoc Indo China Dec 1941 *Singora Thailand Dec 1941 Jan 1942 *Kuantan Malaya Jan 1942 Feb 1942 *Tandjungkarang southern Sumatra Feb 1942 Mar 1942 *Palembang Mar 1942 Jun 1942 (detachment) *

Toungoo Taungoo (, ''Tauñngu myoú''; ; also spelled Toungoo) is a district-level city in the Bago Region of Myanmar, 220 km from Yangon, towards the north-eastern end of the division, with mountain ranges to the east and west. The main industr ...

North Burma Apr 1942 *Myingyan Burma Apr 1942 May 1942 *Rangoon May 1942 Jun 1942 * Akeno Jul 1942 Sep 1942 *

Mingaladon Mingaladon Township ( my, မင်္ဂလာဒုံ မြို့နယ် ) is located in the northernmost part of Yangon, Myanmar. The township comprises 31 wards, and shares borders with Hmawbi Township in the north, North Okkalapa Towns ...

, Burma, October 1942 - November 1942 * Rabaul West, New Britain, December 1942 - June 1943 *

Lae Lae () is the capital of Morobe Province and is the second-largest city in Papua New Guinea. It is located near the delta of the Markham River and at the start of the Highlands Highway, which is the main land transport corridor between the Highl ...

, New Guinea, January 1943 - March 1943 * Buka, Bougainville, January 1943 - February 1943 * Munda, Solomon Islands, January 1943 - February 1943 (detached) *

Wewak Wewak is the capital of the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea. It is on the northern coast of the island of New Guinea. It is the largest town between Madang and Jayapura. It is the see city (seat) of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wewak. Hi ...

, New Guinea, March 1943 - May 1943 *

Madang Madang (old German name: ''Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen'') is the capital of Madang Province and is a town with a population of 27,420 (in 2005) on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. It was first settled by the Germans in the 19th century. Histor ...

, New Guinea, March 1943 - May 1943 *Taisho, Japan, July 1943 - August 1943 *Harbin Aug 1943 Sep 1943 *Laolian Manchuria Sep 1943 Dec 1943 *Wuchang China Dec 1943 *Canton Dec 1943 Feb 1944 *Tokorozawa Mar 1944 Oct 1944 *

Ilan Ilan may refer to: Organization *ILAN, Israeli umbrella organization for the treatment of disabled children Given name *Ilan (name), a Hebrew/Israeli name * Ilan Bakhar, a retired Israeli footballer *Ilan Araújo Dall'Igna, a Brazilian footballer ...

Formosa Oct 1944 *Luzon Philippines Oct 1944 Nov 1944 *Shimodate north of Tokyo Nov 1944 Dec 1944 *Porac Luzon Dec 1944 Jan 1945 *Chaochou Formosa Jan 1945 Feb 1945 *Takaagi Kanto district Mar 1945 Aug 1945

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:11th Hiko Sentai Units and formations of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service Military units and formations established in 1938 Military units and formations disestablished in 1945