The 24th Mixed Brigade was a military unit 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 ...
.
History
This
Mixed Brigade
Mixed brigade ( es, brigada mixta) was a basic tactical military unit of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. It was initially designed as “pocket division”, an innovative maneuverable combined-arms formation. Because of high sa ...
was sent by the
12th Division from
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
to the
Battle of Shanghai
The Battle of Shanghai () was the first of the twenty-two major engagements fought between the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Republic of China (ROC) and the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) of the Empire of Japan at the beginning of th ...
in 1932.
[Madej, W. Victor. ''Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945'', 2 vols.Allentown, PA: 1981]
Organization
*24th Mixed Brigade – ?, 3,000 troops
** 2nd Battalion / 14th Infantry Regiment
** 1st Battalion / 24th Infantry Regiment
** 1st Battalion / 46th Infantry Regiment
** 1st Battalion / 48th Infantry Regiment
** 1 Squadron Cavalry
** 2nd Battalion / 3rd Independent Mountain Gun Regiment (two Batteries)
** 2nd Company / 18th Engineer Battalion
See also
*
Mixed Brigades (Imperial Japanese Army)
*
List of Japanese Mixed Brigades
References
External links
Axis History Forum: SHANGHAI 1932
Japanese World War II brigades
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