The 238th Infantry Regiment was an infantry
regiment in the
Imperial Japanese Army. The regiment was attached to the
41st Division. The regiment participated during the
Second Sino-Japanese War and during the later stages of
World War II, the regiment was in
New Guinea, as part of the
Japanese Eighteenth Army
The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
History
The Japanese 18th Army was formed on November 9, 1942, under the Japanese Eighth Area Army of the Southern Expeditionary Army Group for the specific task of opposin ...
taking part in the
New Guinea campaign
The New Guinea campaign of the Pacific War lasted from January 1942 until the end of the war in August 1945. During the initial phase in early 1942, the Empire of Japan invaded the Australian-administered Mandated Territory of New Guinea (23 Jan ...
.
Organization
*1st Battalion
*2nd Battalion
*3rd Battalion
Infantry Regiments (Imperial Japanese Army)
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