The Mixed Brigade was one of the military units of the
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 o ...
. 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
''Kantō-gun''
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, caption = Kwantung Army headquarters in Hsinking, Manchukuo
, dates = April ...
in the 1930s was the
IJA 1st Independent Mixed Brigade The 1st Independent Mixed Brigade or 1st Mixed Brigade (獨立混成第1旅團) was an experimental combined arms formation of the Imperial Japanese Army. In July 1937, at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the brigade was known as the S ...
and the
IJA 11th Independent Mixed Brigade. These brigades were organized in unique manners and one of them, the 11th was later formed into the
IJA 26th Division
The was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army. Its call sign was the . The ''26th Division'' was raised 30 September 1937 out of the three independent infantry regiments from the original 11th Independent Mixed Brigade and reserve ...
.
Later a series of
IJA Independent Mixed Brigades
Between 1937 and 1945 the Japanese Imperial Army formed 126 Independent Mixed Brigades (numbered 1–136 with some gaps), typically composed of various units detached from other formations. Some were composed of separate, independent assets (usua ...
were formed for the purpose of garrisoning the large territories of China captured in the early phase of 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 ...
.
See also
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List of Japanese Infantry divisions
References
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External links
The Japanese Mutumi troop encyclopedia陸 軍 編
Japanese World War II brigades
Military units and formations established in 1937
Military units and formations disestablished in 1945