The was an
infantry division of the
Imperial Japanese Army. Its
call sign was the , after the
Aki District, Hiroshima
is a district, and is within the Minami-ku, Hiroshima ward, Ward (electoral subdivision), one of the
eight wards that comprise the Hiroshima Prefecture, in Japan.
'Minami', is Japanese for 'South'. 'Ku', is loosely suggestive of a division, s ...
. It was formed on 2 April 1945 in
Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui h ...
as a
triangular division. It was one of a batch of eight divisions comprising the
201st,
202nd, 205th,
206th,
209th,
212th,
214th and
216th Divisions that were created as part of the Japanese reaction to the
Battle of Okinawa
The , codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army (USA) and United States Marine Corps (USMC) forces against the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). The initial invasion of ...
.
Action
In June 1945, the ''205th Division'' was deployed at
Kōchi
Kochi is a city in Kerala, India.
Kochi or Kōchi may also refer to:
People
* Kochi people, a predominantly Pashtun nomadic people of Afghanistan
* , a Japanese surname:
** Arata Kochi (born 1948 or 1949), Japanese physician and World Health Org ...
.
It did not see any combat, and was disbanded after the
surrender of Japan
The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, bringing the war's hostilities to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy ...
on 15 August 1945.
See also
*
List of Japanese Infantry Divisions
Notes and references
*This article incorporates material from Japanese Wikipedia page
第205師団 (日本軍), accessed 14 July 2016
* Madej, W. Victor, ''Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle'', 1937–1945
vols Allentown, PA: 1981.
Japanese World War II divisions
Infantry divisions of Japan
Military units and formations established in 1945
Military units and formations disestablished in 1945
1945 establishments in Japan
1945 disestablishments in Japan
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