The 102nd Infantry Regiment was an infantry
regiment in the
Imperial Japanese Army. The regiment was at one stage attached to the 128th Infantry Brigade, of the
114th Division, in the
Tenth Army during the
Second Sino-Japanese War. The regiment was later attached to the
Eastern District Army
The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army responsible for the defense of the Kantō region and northern Honshū during the Pacific War. It was one of the regional commands in the Japanese home islands reporting to the General Defense ...
on 7 September 1940, then the
Kwantung Army on 1 August 1941, then assigned to the
Twenty-Third Army on 19 September 1941 and the
Eighteenth Army in November 1942. The regiment participated during the Second Sino-Japanese War and during the later stages of
World War II, the regiment was in
New Guinea, 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
Commanders
*Colonel Yasuhei Maruoka - Jan 1943
*Colonel Keijiro Hori - Jun 1943
References
*http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=9100
Infantry Regiments (Imperial Japanese Army)
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