The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia
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| Table of Contents |
| Unit |
Commander |
Start |
Administrative Assignment |
Operational Assignment |
Notes |
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| 6
Independent Garrison Unit |
Activated 1944 |
Army General Staff | |||
| 11
Air
Division |
Kitajima Kumao |
Activated 1944 (Osaka) |
Army
General
Staff |
Or 11 Air Training
Division |
|
| 44
Air
Division |
Furuya
Kenzo |
Activated 1944 (Japan) |
Army General Staff | ||
| 12
Air
Division |
Furuya
Kenzo |
Activated 1944 (Japan) |
Army General Staff | Activated some time after 44
Air
Division |
|
| 7 Depot
Division |
Ochiai
Chukichi |
Asahikawa | Northern District Army | Supporting at least 4 divisions and 4
brigades by the end of the war. |
|
| 54
Depot
Division |
Ogura Tatsuji |
Activated 1944 (Himeji) |
General
Defense
Command |
Supporting at least 5
divisions and 2 brigades by the end of the war. |
|
| 60 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Ando Chuichiro |
Activated 1944 |
Army General Staff | ||
| 62 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Nagamine Kiichi |
Activated 1914th independent
mixed brigade44 |
13 Army | ||
| 67
Independent Mixed Brigade |
Nagasawa
Saburo |
Activated 1944 (Ryukyus) |
Army General Staff | ||
| 68 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Kurusu
Takeo |
Activated 1944 |
Southern Army | ||
| 69 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Doi Sadashichi |
Activated 1944 (southern Kuriles) |
Army General Staff | ||
| 73 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Ishikawa Tadao |
Activated 1944 |
Army General Staff | ||
| 1 Independent Tank
Brigade |
Hosomi
Nobuo |
Activated 1944 |
Army General Staff | ||
| 4 Marine Movement
Brigade |
Mineki Toichiro |
Activated 1944 |
Army General Staff | ||
| 101 Sasebo SNLF |
Activated 1944? (Truk?) |
4
Fleet |
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| 1 Mobile
Brigade |
Cho Isamu |
Activated 1944 |
Army General Staff | Possibly with Kwantung Army |
|
| 42 Defence Unit |
Iwai
Torajiro |
Activated 1944 |
Army General Staff | ||
| LSD Tamatsu
Maru |
Completed 1944-1 (Mitsui-Tamano) |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-8-19 off Luzon by Spadefish |
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| LSD Takatsu
Maru |
Completed 1944-1 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft 1944-11-10 at Ormoc Bay. | ||
| 24 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Hayashi Yoshihide |
Activated 1944-1 (Moulmein) |
Burma
Area Army |
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| 1
Independent
Brigade |
Miyashita Kenichiro |
Activated 1944-1
(Yenchang: 116.827E 35.553N) |
North
China Area Army |
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| 2
Independent Brigade |
Activated 1944-1? (Shihchiachuang) |
China
Expeditionary Army |
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| 3
Independent
Brigade |
Nakashiro Toyojiro |
Activated 1944-1? (north China) | North China Area Army | Deactivated 1944-9 to provide
cadre for 114
Division. |
|
| 4
Independent Brigade |
Suzuki
Hiraku |
Activated 1944-1? (north China) | North China Area Army | Deactivated 1944-7 to provide cadre for 117 Division. | |
| 5
Independent
Brigade |
Noji
Kahei |
Activated 1944-1? (Shasin:
112.245E 30.307N) |
Army General Staff | ||
| 6
Independent Brigade |
Tada
Tamotsu |
Activated 1944-1? (Anking) |
China Expeditionary Army | ||
| 7
Independent Brigade |
Ikuta Torao |
Activated 1944-1? (Nanchang) |
China Expeditionary Army | ||
| 8
Independent
Brigade |
Kato
Akira |
Activated 1944-1 (Canton) |
China Expeditionary Army | ||
| 10
Independent Brigade |
Itatsu
Naotoshi |
Activated 1944-1? (Shansi, China) |
North China Area Army | ||
| 102
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-1 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 1 Raiding
Company |
Activated 1944-1 |
Army General Staff | Consisted of Taiwanese
with Nakano School
officers. |
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| 153
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-1-1 |
23 Air Flotilla |
12 reconnaissance
aircraft |
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| 343
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-1-1 |
1
Air
Fleet |
Fighter group. Also known as
Hayabusa ("Peregrine Falcon") Group. |
||
| 345
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-1-1 |
62 Air
Flotilla |
Disbanded without ever seeing
combat |
||
| 256
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-1-1 |
China Area Fleet |
24 carrier fighters 8 carrier attack aircraft More a training unit than an operational unit |
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| Chishima
Base
Force |
Kubo
Kyuji |
Activated 1944-1-1 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 28 Army |
Sakurai Shozo |
Activated 1944-1-6 (Burma) |
Burma
Area Army |
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| 29 Army |
Ishiguro Teizo |
Activated 1944-1-6 (Malaya) |
Southern
Army |
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| 30
Base
Force |
Ito
Kenzo |
Activated 1944-1-10 (Palau) |
Navy General Staff | ||
| SS Ro-45 | Completed 1944-1-11 (Mitsubishi-Kobe) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk 1944-4-30 off Truk by MacDonough, Stephen Potter, and aircraft | ||
| 221
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-1-15 |
62 Air Flotilla | 54 A6M
Zero. Also known as Arashi
("Storm") Group. |
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| SC Ch-58 |
Completed 1944-1-26 |
Navy General Staff | History.
Sunk by aircraft 1945-5-22 off Taira Shima |
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| AK Eikyu
Maru |
Completed 1944-1-26 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft
1944-9-21 at Manila |
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| SS Ro-116 | Completed 1944-1-31 (Kawasaki-Kobe) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk 1944-5-24 off Kavieng by England | ||
| SS Ro-117 | Completed 1944-1-31 (Kawasaki-Kobe) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk by aircraft 1944-6-17 off Saipan | ||
| SC Ch-49 |
Completed 1944-1-31 |
Navy General Staff | History.
|
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| SS Ro-47 | Completed 1944-1-31 (Tamano) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk 1944-9-26 off Yap by McCoy Reynolds | ||
| SS I-44 | Completed 1944-1-31 (Yokosuka) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk 1944-4-10 off Okinawa by Fieberling | ||
| 36 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Sai
Toshio |
Activated 1944-2 (Nicobar Islands) |
Army General Staff | ||
| 37 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Sato Tamenori |
Activated 1944-2 (Andaman Islands) |
Army General Staff | ||
| 11
Independent Brigade |
Miyashita
Fumio |
Activated 1944-2 (Yingshan: 113.816E 31.616N) |
China
Expeditionary Army |
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| 12
Independent
Brigade |
Murata Takaiki |
Activated 1944-2 (China) |
China Expeditionary Army | ||
| 13
Independent Brigade |
Ochiai
Matsujiro |
Activated 1944-2 (Wuchow) |
China Expeditionary Army | ||
| 14
Independent Brigade |
Activated 1944-2 (China) | China Expeditionary Army | |||
| 553
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-2 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 17 Air Regiment |
Activated 1944-2 (Kagamigahara) |
22 Air
Brigade |
Ki-61 Tony Participated in the second Philippines and Okinawa campaigns. |
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| 19 Air Regiment |
Activated 1944-2 (Akenobe) |
22 Air
Brigade |
Ki-61 Tony Participated in the second Philippines and Okinawa campaigns. |
||
| 18 Air Regiment |
Activated 1944-2 (Chofu) |
Army General Staff | Ki-61 Tony Participated in the second Philippines campaigns. |
||
| 29 Air Regiment |
Activated 1944-2 (Hailin) |
Army General Staff | Ki-44 Tojo Participated in Formosa, second Philippine, and Okinawa campaigns. |
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| 62
Air
Flotilla |
Sugimoto Ushie |
Activated 1944-2-1 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| Koriyama
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-2-1 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 42
Division |
Terakura Shozo |
Activated 1943 |
Northeastern
District
Army |
A special wartime division.
From Sendai. Built around 62
Independent Infantry Group. Deployed to Kuriles. |
|
| DMS W-30 |
Completed 1944-2-5 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft
1944-11-11
off Leyte |
||
| AK Azuchisan
Maru |
Completed 1944-2-5 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-10-2 by Aspro
west of Luzon |
||
| SS Ro-46 | Completed 1944-2-11 (Mitsubishi-Kobe) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk by aircraft 1945-5-25 off Okinawa | ||
| 5
Air
Army |
Shimoyama Takuma |
Activated 1944-2-14 (Seoul) |
Korea Army | ||
| AK Tenshinsan
Maru |
Completed 1944-2-15 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-5-6 by Gurnard
50 miles northwest of Menado |
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| PB Awaji |
Completed 1944-2-15 (Hitachi-Sakurajima) | Navy General Staff | History. Torpedoed 1944-6-2 off Formosa by Guitarro | ||
| 601
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-2-15 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 31 Army |
Obata Hideyoshi |
Activated 1944-2-18 (Guam) |
General_Defense_Command | ||
| SS I-53 | Completed 1944-2-20 (Kure) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| DD Hayashimo |
Completed 1944-2-20 (Maizuru) | Navy General Staff | History.
Sunk by aircraft 1944-10-26
southeast of Mindoro |
||
| AK Daibu Maru | Completed 1944-2-20 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-5-4 by Tinosa
250 miles southeast of Hong
Kong |
||
| AK Yamateru
Maru |
Completed 1944-2-23 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed 1944-8-24 by Croaker 50 miles northwest of Mokpo, Korea | ||
| AK Dairin
Maru |
Completed 1944-2-27 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-7-3 by Sturgeon
off Wonsan |
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| SS I-46 |
Completed 1944-2-29 (Sasebo) |
Navy General Staff | History.
Missing from 1944-10-27 off Leyte |
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| 35 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Inoue Yoshisuke |
Activated 1944-3 (Andamans) |
Army General Staff | ||
| 46 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Kitagawa Kazuo |
Activated 1944-3? (Formosa) | 10 Area Army | Composed of 304 and 305
Regiments. Deactivated 1944-7 to provide cadre for 66 Division. |
|
| 27
Special
Base
Force |
Sato
Shiro |
Activated 1944-3 (Wewak) |
9 Fleet |
Formed by consolidating 2 and 7 Base
Forces. |
|
| 2
Amphibious
Brigade |
Tamada Yoshio |
Activated 1944-3 (New Guinea) |
Army General Staff | ||
| 32
Air Group |
Activated 1944-3 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 521
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-3 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 26 Tank
Regiment |
Activated 1944-3 (Manchuria) |
Army General Staff | Deployed to Iwo Jima and destroyed there | ||
| 27 Tank
Regiment |
Activated 1944-3 (Manchuria) | Army General Staff | Deployed to Okinawa where it was destroyed. | ||
| 2 INA Division |
Aziz Ahmed |
Activated >1944-3 (Burma) |
Burma
Area Army |
Indian National Army |
|
| 22 Air Regiment |
Activated 1944-3 (Tama) |
Army General Staff | Ki-84 Frank Participated in the second Philippines and Okinawa campaigns. |
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| 55 Air Regiment |
Activated 1944-3 (Taisho) |
Army General Staff | Ki-61 Tony Participated in the second Philippine and Okinawa campaigns. |
||
| 56 Air Regiment |
Activated 1944-3 (Taisho) | Army General Staff | Ki-61 Tony | ||
| 302
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-3-1 |
1 Naval District |
48 interceptors 24 night fighters |
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| 1
Mobile Fleet |
Ozawa Jisaburo |
Activate 1944-3-1 |
Combined
Fleet |
Comprised of 2 Fleet and 3 Fleet |
|
| Central Pacific Area
Fleet |
Nagumo Chuichi |
Activated 1944-3-4 (Saipan) |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 14
Air Fleet |
Nagumo Chuichi |
Activated 1944-3-4 (Saipan) |
Central Pacific Area
Fleet |
||
| CV Taiho |
Completed 1944-3-7 |
Navy General Staff | History. Torpedoed 1944-6-19 by Albacore 180 nautical miles north-northwest of Yap. | ||
| 33 Army |
Hondo
Masaki |
Activated 1944-3-7 (Burma) |
Burma
Area Army |
Hondo apparently did not
arrive
to take command until 1944-4-8. |
|
| AK Jokuja Maru |
Completed 1944-3-8 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-5-15 by Aspro
in Caroline Islands |
||
| PB Kurahashi |
Completed 1944-3-10 (Tsurumi) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| AK Etajima
Maru |
Completed 1944-3-10 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-9-13 by Boarfish
in East China Sea |
||
| DD Akishimo |
Completed 1944-3-11 (Fujinagata) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk by aircraft 1944-11-13 off Manila | ||
| PB Nomi | Completed 1944-3-15 (Tsurumi) | Navy General Staff | History. Torpedoed 1945-4-14 near 126.3E 23.4N by Tirante | ||
| 361
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-3-15 |
62 Air
Flotilla |
Fighter group. Also known as
Akira ("Radiant") Group. |
||
| AO Shiyo
Maru |
Completed 1944-3-15 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-11-23 by Picuda
west of Tsushima |
||
| AO Toshikawa
Maru |
Completed 1944-3-15 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft 1944-10-19 at Manila | ||
| 32 Army |
Watanabe Masao |
Activated 1944-3-15 (Okinawa) |
10 Area Army |
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| 27 Army |
Terakura Shozo |
Activated 1944-3-16 (Kuriles) |
5 Area
Army |
Comprised of 7 and 42
Divisions and 69
Independent
Mixed
Brigade. Disbanded 1945-2-1. |
|
| AK Kakogawa
Maru |
Completed 1944-3-17 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft 1944-11-13 off Manila | ||
| 7
Area
Army |
Dohihara Kenji |
Activated 1944-3-17 (Singapore) |
Southern Army |
Comprised of 16, 25, 29, and 37 Armies |
|
| SC Ch-53 |
Completed 1944-3-20 |
Navy General Staff | History. Sunk 1944-11-28 off Leyte by Waller, Saufley, Renshaw, and Pringle | ||
| Yosuko
Base
Force |
Hatakeyama Koichiro |
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| AK Surakaruta
Maru |
Completed 1944-3-24 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft 1944-9-21 of west coast of Luzon | ||
| AK Daiju
Maru |
Completed 1944-3-25 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-4-23 off Japan |
||
| AK Katsukawa
Maru |
Completed 1944-3-25 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-6-4 by Shark
300 miles west of Guam |
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| 27 Base Force |
Activated 1944-3-25 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| AK Yamazumi
Maru |
Completed 1944-3-27 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| SC Ch-60 |
Completed 1944-3-28 |
Navy General Staff | History.
|
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| 10
Air
Division |
Yoshida Kihachiro |
Activated 1944-3-28 (Japan) |
Army
General
Staff |
||
| 653
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-3-29 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| PB Kasado | Completed 1944-3-30 (Uraga-Tokyo) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
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| AK Miyatama
Maru |
Completed 1944-3-30 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft 1945-5-1 off Mokpo, Korea | ||
| AK Asukasan
Maru |
Completed 1944-3-30 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-7-4 by Tang
off Korea |
||
| AK Enoura
Maru |
Completed 1944-3-30 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft 1945-1-9 off Takao | ||
| AK Daijo
Maru |
Completed 1944-3-30 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1945-4-2 by Sea
Devil 120 miles off Korea |
||
| AK Daisho
Maru |
Completed 1944-3-30 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed 1944-10-26 by Drum north of Luzon | ||
| SS Ro-48 | Completed 1944-3-31 (Mitsubishi-Kobe) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk 1944-7-14 off Saipan by William C. Miller | ||
| SS I-54 |
Completed 1944-3-31 (Yokosuka) |
Navy General Staff | History.
Sunk 1944-10-24 off Leyte
by Richard M. Rowell |
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| DD Shimotsuki | Completed 1944-3-31 (Nagasaki) | Navy General Staff | History. Torpedoed 1944-11-25 by Cavalla 220 miles ENE of Singapore | ||
| 90 Guard Force |
Activated < 1944-4 (Hollandia) |
8
Fleet |
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| AO/CV Hayasui |
Completed 1944-4 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed 1944-8-19 off Luzon by Bluefish | ||
| 91
Division |
Tsutsumi Fusaki |
Activated 1944-4-12 (Shimushu) |
27 Army |
Type C division. Composed of
73 and 74
Brigades. |
|
| 30
Depot
Division |
Takahashi Takaji |
Activated 1944-4 (Seoul) |
Korea Army |
Supporting just 30 Division
at the end of the war. |
|
| 4
Maritime
Escort
Force |
Nippa
Teizo |
Activated 1944-4 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 2
Convoy
Headquarters |
Kiyota Takahiko |
Activated 1944-4 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 3
Convoy
Headquarters |
Tsuruoka Nobukichi |
Activated 1944-4 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 4
Convoy
Headquarters |
Nakamura Motoji |
Activated 1944-4 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 5
Convoy
Headquarters |
Sato
Namizo |
Activated 1944-4 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 8
Convoy
Headquarters |
Sato
Tsutomu |
Activated 1944-4 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 43 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Shiba Nobutaka |
Activated 1944-4 (Kuriles) |
27 Army | ||
| 47 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Oka
Yoshirou |
Activated 1944-4 (Saipan) |
31 Army |
||
| 48 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Shigematsu Kiyoshi |
Activated 1944-4 (Guam) |
31 Army | ||
| Okinawa
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-4 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 51 Air Regiment |
Activated 1944-4 (Ozuki) |
Army General Staff | Ki-84 Frank Participated in the second Philippine campaign. |
||
| 52 Air Regiment |
Activated 1944-4 (Osaka) | Army General Staff | Ki-84 Frank Participated in the second Philippine campaign. |
||
| 2 INA
Guerrilla Regiment |
Activated <1944-4 |
Army General Staff | |||
| 1
Convoy
Headquarters |
Ijuin Matsuji |
Activated 1944-4-8 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 6
Convoy
Headquarters |
Kajioka Sadamichi |
Activated 1944-4-8 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| AK Sagamigawa
Maru |
Completed 1944-4-15 |
Navy General Staff | Mined
1945-5-7 north of Karatsu, Japan |
||
| SS I-55 | Completed 1944-4-20 (Kure) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk 1944-7-28 off Tinian by Reynolds and Wyman | ||
| AO Amahi
Maru |
Completed 1944-4-20 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft 1944-9-24 at Manila | ||
| AK Ejiri
Maru |
Completed 1944-4-24 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed 1944-10-26 by Lapon off Luzon | ||
| AK Daihaku
Maru |
Completed 1944-4-28 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-10-26 by Drum
north of Luzon |
||
| DE Matsu |
Completed 1944-4-28 (Maizuru)
|
Navy General Staff | History.
Sunk
by aircraft
and gunfire
1944-8-4 50
miles northwest of Chichi-jima |
||
| AK Daishin
Maru |
Completed 1944-4-30 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk in collision 1945-5-19
north of Tsushima |
||
| AK Araosan
Maru |
Completed 1944-4-30
|
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1945-4-6 by Hardhead
in Gulf of Siam |
||
| 50
Division |
Ishimoto Sadanao |
Activated 1944-5-3 (Formosa) |
10
Area
Army |
Special wartime division.
Composed of 301, 302, and 303
Regiments. Never left Formosa. |
|
| 2
Parachute
Brigade |
Activated 1944-5 | Army General Staff | |||
| 28
Base
Force |
Senda Sadatoshi |
Activated 1944-5 (Biak) |
9 Fleet |
Or 28 Special Base Force |
|
| 3
Maritime
Escort
Force |
Nakamura Motoji |
Activated 1944-5 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 44 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Kitagawa Kazuo |
Activated 1944-5 (Kyushu) |
Army General Staff | Composed of 2 and 15 Independent
Mixed Regiments |
|
| 45 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Miyazaki Takeshi |
Activated 1944-5 (Formosa) |
Army General Staff | ||
| 51 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Ijuin Kanenobu |
Activated 1944-5 (Truk) |
31 Army |
||
| 52 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Watanabe Masao |
Activated 1944-5 (Ponape) |
31 Army |
||
| Kofuji
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-5 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 13
Air Group |
Activated 1944-5 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 28 Air Regiment |
Activated 1944-5 (Hailang) |
Army General Staff | Intially a reconnaissance unit |
||
| 53 Air Regiment |
Activated 1944-5 (Tokorozawa) |
Army General Staff | Ki-45 Nick
night fighters |
||
| 21 Air Brigade |
Army General Staff | ||||
| 71 Air Regiment |
Activated 1944-5 (Kameyama) |
21 Air Brigade | Ki-84 Frank Participated in second Philippines campaign. |
||
| 73 Air Regiment |
Activated 1944-5 (Kita-Ise) | 21 Air Brigade | Ki-84 Frank Participated in second Philippines campaign. |
||
| 72 Air Regiment |
Activated 1944-5 (Kita-Ise) |
21 Air Brigade |
Ki-84 Frank Participated in second Philippines campaign. |
||
| 19 Guard Force |
Activated <1944-5 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| AK Esashi
Maru |
Completed 1944-5-7 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft
1944-11-19
off Luzon |
||
| SC Ch-61 |
Completed 1944-5-8 |
Navy General Staff | History.
Sunk by aircraft 1945-1-9 off Takao |
||
| LS T-1 |
Completed 1944-5-10 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft
1944-6-27
off Palau |
||
| PB Chiburi |
Completed 1944-5-13 (Tsurumi) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk by aircraft 1945-1-12 off Cap St Jacques | ||
| AO Jakaruta
Maru |
Completed 1944-5-15 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| DD Kiyoshimo |
Completed 1944-5-15 (Uraga) | Navy General Staff | History. Torpedoed 1944-12-26 by PT-223 south of Manila | ||
| 61
Air
Flotilla |
Uwano
Keizo |
Activated 1944-5-15 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 107
Division |
Abe
Koichi |
Activated 1944-5-16 (Manchuria) |
Kwantung_Defense_Army |
Special wartime division.
Composed of 90, 177, and 178
Regiments. |
|
| AK Tatsuhiro
Maru |
Completed 1944-5-18 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-10-5 by Cod
in Mindoro Strait |
||
| AK Edogawa
Maru |
Completed 1944-5-20 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-11-17 by Sunfish
in East China Sea |
||
| 109
Division |
Kuribayashi
Tadamichi |
Activated 1944-5-22 (Iwo Jima) |
Army General Staff | Type C division. Organized
from 2
Independent_Mixed Brigade and 145 Regiment.
Destroyed in the battle of Iwo Jima. |
|
| SS I-362 | Completed 1944-5-23 (Mitsubishi-Kobe) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk 1945-1-13 off Truk by Fleming | ||
| SS I-361 |
Completed 1944-5-25 (Kure) |
Navy General Staff | History.
Sunk 1945-5-30 off Okinawa
by aircraft
from Anzio |
||
| DD Fuyuzuki | Completed 1944-5-25 (Maizuru) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| AK Kizan
Maru |
Completed 1944-5-27 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 49
Division |
Takehara Saburo |
Activated 1944-5-27 (Seoul) |
Korea
Army |
"Okami" ("Wolf") Division.
Created from 64
Independent
Infantry Group. Deployed to Burma 1944-6 |
|
| AK Nakagawa
Maru |
Completed 1944-5-28 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft
1945-5-6 in
Korea Straits |
||
| DMS W-34 |
Completed 1944-5-29 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1945-5-21 off Kepulauan by Chub |
||
| SC Ch-55 |
Completed 1944-5-31 |
Navy General Staff | History.
Sunk by aircraft 1944-9-12 off Cebu |
||
| DMS W-39 |
Completed 1944-5-31 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1945-7-20 off Korea by Threadfin |
||
| AO Kenjo
Maru |
Completed 1944-5-31 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-12-7 by Segundo and Razorback
north of Luzon |
||
| SS Ro-49 | Completed 1944-5-44 (Tamano) | Navy General Staff | History. SAunk 1945-5-5 off Okinawa by Hudson | ||
| 15
Special
Base
Force |
Ichioka Hisashi |
Activated 1944-6 (Prai, Malaya) |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 38 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Kijima
Kesao |
Activated 1944-6 (Bougainville) |
17 Army |
||
| 49 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Arima Akihiko |
Activated 1944-6 (Yap) |
31 Army |
||
| 50 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Kitamura Katsuzo |
Activated 1944-6 (Woleai) |
31 Army |
||
| 53 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Yamaguchi Takeo |
Activated 1944-6 (Palau) |
31 Army |
||
| 54 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Hojo
Takichi |
Activated 1944-6 (Mindanao) |
14 Area Army | ||
| 55 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Suzuki Tetsuzo |
Activated 1944-6 (Jolo) |
14 Area Army | ||
| 56 Guard Force |
Activated <1944-6 (Tinian) |
Navy General Staff | |||
| PB Yashiro | Completed 1944-6-3 (Hitachi-Sakurajima) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| DE Momo |
Completed 1944-6-10 (Maizuru) | Navy General Staff | History.
Torpedoed
1944-12-15 by Hawkbill off Luzon |
||
| DMS W-38 |
Completed 1944-6-10 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-11-20 off Formosa by
Atule |
||
| AK Daiiku
Maru |
Completed 1944-6-10 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| AK Jintsugawa
Maru |
Completed 1944-6-10 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| AK Daiko
Maru |
Completed 1944-6-13 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft
1945-8-10 at Rashin |
||
| SS I-364 | Completed 1944-6-14 (Mitsubishi-Kobe) | Navy General Staff | History. Torpedoed 1944-9-15 off Yokosuka by Sea Devil | ||
| LS T-4 | Completed 1944-6-15 | Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft 1944-8-4 off Chichi Jima | ||
| 2
Air
Fleet |
Fukudome Shigeru |
Activated 1944-6-15 (Takao) |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 102
Division |
Fukei Shinpei |
Activated 1944-6-15 (Cebu) |
14 Area Army |
Created from 31
Independent
Mixed
Brigade. Type C division composed of 77 and 78
Brigades. |
|
| 103
Division |
Muraoka Yoshitake |
Activated 1944-6-15 (Baguio) | Southern Army | Created from 32
Independent
Mixed
Brigade. Type C division consisting of 79
Brigade and 80
Brigades. |
|
| 105
Division |
Tsuda Yoshitake |
Activated 1944-6-15 (Los Banos, Luzon) | Southern Army | Created from 33
Independent
Mixed
Brigade. Type C division consisting of 81 and 82
Brigades. Destroyed on Luzon. |
|
| DE Take |
Completed 1944-6-16 (Yokosuka)
|
Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| AK Daitoku
Maru |
Completed 1944-6-18 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft
1944-11-13
off Manila |
||
| AK Hoei
Maru |
Completed 1944-6-21 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| AK Eiji
Maru |
Completed 1944-6-21 |
Navy General Staff | Mined
1944-9-6 off Takao |
||
| AK Arisan
Maru |
Completed 1944-6-22 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-10-24 by Snook
200 miles northwest of Luzon |
||
| LS T-2 |
Completed 1944-6-25 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft
1944-8-5 off Chichi Jima |
||
| DE Ume |
Completed 1944-6-28 (Osaka) |
Navy General Staff | History. Sunk by aircraft 1945-1-31 off Formosa | ||
| LS T-3 |
Completed 1944-6-29 |
Navy General Staff | Grounded 1944-9-14 off Mindanao |
||
| AK Nichiyu
Maru #2 |
Completed 1944-6-30 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft 1945-1-21 off Takao | ||
| SC Ch-63 |
Completed 1944-6-30 |
Navy General Staff | History.
Torpedoed 1945-3-26 off Andaman
Islands by Volage, Vigilant, and Virago |
||
| 39 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Ito
Takeo |
Activated 1944-7 (New Britain) |
Army General Staff | ||
| 40 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Sakamoto Sueo |
Activated 1944-7 (Kavieng) | 17 Army |
||
| 57 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Endo Shinichi |
Activated 1944-7 (Kanazawa) |
2 Army |
Deployed to Celebes almost at once. |
|
| 59
Independent Mixed Brigade |
Activated 1944-7? (Manchuria) |
Kwantung_Defense_Army | |||
| 64 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Takada Toshisada |
Activated 1944-7? (Ryukyus?) | Army General Staff | ||
| 66 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Yokota Toyoichirou |
Activated 1944-7 (north China) |
North
China Area Army |
||
| 6
Independent Tank Brigade |
Activated 1944-7 (China) | China Expeditionary Army | |||
| Iwo
Jima
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-7 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| Kochi
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-7 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| Mariana
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-7 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| Philippine
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-7 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| Taiwan
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-7 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 100 Air Brigade |
Activated 1944-7 | Army General Staff | |||
| 101 Air
Regiment |
Activated 1944-7 (Kita-Ise) | 100 Air Brigade |
Ki-84 Frank Participated in Okinawa campaign and took heavy losses while accomplishing little. |
||
| 102 Air
Regiment |
Activated 1944-7 (Kita-Ise) | 100 Air
Brigade |
Ki-84 Frank Participated in Okinawa campaign and took heavy losses. Contributed to kamikaze raids. |
||
| 103 Air
Regiment |
Activated 1944-7 (Kameyama) |
100 Air Brigade | Ki-84 Frank Participated in Okinawa campaign and took heavy losses. |
||
| 104 Air
Regiment |
Activated 1944-7 (Ozuki) |
Army General Staff | Ki-43 Oscar Participated in Manchurian campaign. |
||
| PB Kusagaki |
Completed 1944-7-1 (Tsurumi) | Navy General Staff | History. Torpedoed 1944-8-7 off Manila by Guitarro | ||
| AK Eiman
Maru |
Completed 1944-7-2 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft
1945-1-12
off French Indochina |
||
| 34 Army |
Sano Tadayoshi |
Activated 1944-7-3 (Hankow) |
China
Expeditionary
Army |
||
| AK Daibin
Maru |
Completed 1944-7-5 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-10-4 by Flasher off Iba |
||
| 4
Armored
Division |
Nagura Shiori |
Activated 1944-7-6 (Chiba) |
Eastern
District
Army |
"Hagane" ("Steel") Division.
Composed of 28, 29, and 30 Tank Regiments. |
|
| 3 Imperial Guards
Division |
Hayashi Yoshitaro |
Activated 1944-7-6 (Tokyo) |
Army General Staff | Infantry group composed of 8, 9, and 10 Imperial Guards
Regiments. Never saw combat |
|
| 44
Division |
Seki
Genroku |
Activated 1944-7-6 (Osaka) |
Army General Staff | Special wartime division.
From Osaka. Composed of 92, 93,
and 94 Infantry Regiments. Never
saw combat |
|
| 72
Division |
Oga
Shigeru |
Activated 1944-7-6 (Fukushima) |
Northeastern
District
Army |
Special wartime division.
Composed of 134, 152, and 155
Regiments. Never left Japan |
|
| 77
Division |
Ochiai Chukichi |
Activated 1944-7-6 (Kajiki:
130.67E 31.73N) |
Western
District
Army |
Special wartime division.
Composed of 98, 99, and 100
Regiments. Never left Japan |
|
| 84
Division |
Ogura Tatsuji |
Activated 1944-7-6 (Himeji) |
Army General Staff | Special wartime division.
Composed of 199, 200, and 201
Regiment. Never left Japan |
|
| 86
Division |
Isa
Kazuo |
Activated 1944-7-6 (Ariake
Bay) |
Army General Staff | Composed of 187, 188,
and 189 Regiments. Never left
Japan |
|
| SS I-363 | Completed 1944-7-8 (Kure) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| 112
Division |
Nakamura Jizio |
Activated 1944-7-8 (Manchuria) | 3 Army | ||
| SS I-47 | Completed 1944-7-10 (Sasebo) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| 131
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-7-10 |
3 Air Fleet |
24 reconnaissance
aircraft 24 night fighters |
||
| 3
Air
Fleet |
Kira
Shunichi |
Activated 1944-7-10 (Japan) |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 47
Division |
Osako Michisada |
Activated 1944-7-10 (Hirosaki) | Army General Staff | Special wartime division.
Composed of 91, 105, and
131
Regiments. Deployed to China
1944-9 |
|
| 73
Division |
Kawada Suesaburo |
Activated 1944-7-10 (Kokuba) |
Army General Staff | Special wartime division.
Composed of 196, 197 and 198
Regiments. Never left Japan |
|
| 114
Division |
Nakashiro Toyojiro |
Activated 1944-7-10 (China) |
1 Army |
Type C division. Possibly
created from 3
Independent Brigade and elements of 69 Division.
Composed of 83 and 84 Brigades. Unrelated to the
previous 114 Division deactivated in 1940. |
|
| 118
Division |
Uchida Ginnosuke |
Activated 1944-7-10 (Tientsin) | North
China
Area Army |
Type C division. Composed of
89 and 90
Brigades. |
|
| 66
Division |
Kitagawa Kazuo |
Activated 1944-7-12 (Formosa) | 10 Area Army | Special wartime division.
Created from 46
Independent Mixed Brigade. Composed of 249, 304, and
305
Regiments. |
|
| 111
Division |
Iwasaki Tamio |
Activated 1944-7-12 (Manchuria) | 58 Army |
Special wartime division.
Composed of 243, 244, and 245
Regiments. |
|
| 36 Army |
Uemura Toshimichi |
Activated 1944-7-15 (Urawa:
139.64E 35.87N) |
Army General Staff | Also comprised 93
Divisions and 1
and 4
Armored
Divisions. |
|
| 81
Division |
Koga
Takeshi |
Activated 1944--15 (Utsunomiya) |
36 Army |
Special wartime division.
Composed of 171, 172 and 173
Regiments. Never left Japan. |
|
| 115
Division |
Sugiura Eikichi |
Activated 1944-7-15
(Yencheng, China) |
12 Army |
Created from 7
Independent Mixed Brigade. Type C composed of 85 and 86
Brigades. |
|
| 117
Division |
Suzuki Hiraku |
Activated 1944-7-15 (China) | Kwantung_Defense_Army | Created from 4
Independent Mixed Brigade. Type C division composed of
87 and 88
Brigades. Redeployed to Korea
1945-7 |
|
| DMS W-41 |
Completed 1944-7-17 |
Navy General Staff | Beached and abandoned near Takao
after air
attack
1945-1-4 |
||
| DE Kuwa |
Completed 1944-7-25 (Osaka) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk by gunfire 1944-12-3 off Ormoc | ||
| SC Ch-56 |
Completed 1944-7-26 |
Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| 35 Army |
Suzuki Sosaku |
Activated 1944-7-26 (Philippines) |
14 Area Army |
||
| SS Ro-50 | Completed 1944-7-31 (Tamano) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| 761 Air Group |
Activated <1944-8 (Philippines) |
26 Air
Flotilla |
Included all the bombers in the Philippines
in late 1944. |
||
| 33
Special
Base
Force |
Harada
Kaku |
Activated 1944-8 (Cebu) |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 7
Convoy
Headquarters |
Matsuyama Mitsuharu |
Activated 1944-8 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 61 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Tajima Hikotaro |
Activated 1944-8 |
14 Area Army | ||
| 70 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Oda
Masato |
Activated 1944-8 (Indochina) |
Army General Staff | ||
| Takuma
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-8 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 105 Air
Regiment |
Activated 1944-8 (Taichu) |
Army General Staff | Ki-61 Tony Participated in Okinawa campaign |
||
| SS I-365 | Completed 1944-8-1 (Yokosuka) | Navy General Staff | History. Torpedoed 1944-11-28 off Yokosuka by Scabbardfish | ||
| 332
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-8-1 |
2 Naval District |
48 interceptors 16 reconnaissance seaplanes |
||
| SS I-366 | Completed 1944-8-3 (Mitsubishi-Kobe) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| PB Hiburi |
Completed 1944-8-4 (Hitachi-Sakurajima) | Navy General Staff | History. Torpedoed 1944-8-22 off Manila by Harder | ||
| CV Unryu |
Completed 1944-8-6 (Yokosuka) |
Navy General Staff | History. Torpedoed by Redfish on 1944-12-19 200nm SE of Shanghai | ||
| PB Shonan |
Completed 1944-8-7 (Hitachi-Sakurajima) | Navy General Staff | History. Torpedoed 1945-2-25 off Hainan by Hoe | ||
| SS I-56 | Completed 1944-8-8 (Yokosuka) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk 1945-4-18 off Okinawa by Collett, Heermann, McCord, Mertz, Uhlmann and aircraft from Bataan | ||
| Training
Air
Army |
Sugawara Michio |
Activated 1944-8-8 |
Army General Staff | Redesignated 6 Air Army on 1944-12-26 |
|
| CV Amagi |
Completed 1944-8-10 (Nagasaki) |
Navy General Staff | History. Sunk by aircraft on 1945-7-24 off Kure | ||
| DE Maki |
Completed 1944-8-10 (Maizuru) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| 352
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-8-10 |
3 Naval District |
48 interceptors 12 night fighters Also known as Kusanagi ("Heavenly Grass-mowing Sword") Air Group |
||
| LS T-8 |
Completed 1944-8-13 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by gunfire 1944-12-24 off Chichi Jima | ||
| DE Kiri |
Completed 1944-8-14 (Yokosuka) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| AO Eikyo
Maru |
Completed 1944-8-15 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
by Dace and
beached 1944-10-14 on Labuan. |
||
| SS I-367 | Completed 1944-8-15 (Mitsubishi-Kobe) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| LS T-7 |
Completed 1944-8-15 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by gunfire
1944-12-27 near
141.3E 24.8N |
||
| Shiga Air Group |
Morimoto Jo |
Activated 1944-8-15 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| LS T-6 |
Completed 1944-8-19 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft
1944-11-25
at Balanacan |
||
| AO Einin
Maru |
Completed 1944-8-19 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| Cruiser Division 31 |
Edo Heitaro |
Activated 1944-8-20 |
2
Fleet |
Isuzu. Sometimes also listed as Escort Squadron 31. |
|
| AO Daimei
Maru |
Completed 1944-8-24 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-11-3 by Gurnard
200 miles northwest of Miri |
||
| DE Sugi |
Completed 1944-8-25 (Osaka) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| SS I-368 | Completed 1944-8-25 (Yokosuka) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk 1945-2-27 off Iwo Jima by aircraft from Anzio | ||
| 6
Area
Army |
Okabe Naosaburu |
Activated 1944-8-25 (Hankow) |
China
Expeditionary
Army |
Comprised of 11 and 20 Armies |
|
| LS T-9 |
Completed 1944-8-28 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| AO Daishu
Maru |
Completed 1944-8-28 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1945-4-29 by Cero
off Kamaishi |
||
| AO Enryaku
Maru |
Completed 1944-8-31 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| LS T-10 |
Completed 1944-9 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft
1944-11-25
at Balanacan |
||
| 31
Air Group |
Activated 1944-9 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| AO Eiwa
Maru |
Completed 1944-9-3 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft 1944-11-13 off Manila | ||
| SS I-370 | Completed 1944-9-4 (Mitsubishi-Kobe) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk 1945-2-26 off Iwo Jima by Finnegan | ||
| AO Tamon
Maru #15 |
Completed 1944-9-5 |
Navy General Staff | Mined 1945-1-26 off Hone Cape, French Indochina | ||
| SS I-48 | Completed 1944-9-5 (Sasebo) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk 1945-1-23 off Yap by Conklin, Corbesier and Raby | ||
| DE Momi |
Completed 1944-9-7 (Yokosuka)
|
Navy General Staff | History. Sunk by aircraft 1945-1-5 off Manila | ||
| SS I-58 | Completed 1944-9-7 (Yokosuka) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| AO Ebara
Maru |
Completed 1944-9-8 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-10-25 by Tang
in Taiwan Strait. |
||
| PB Daito | Completed 1944-9-11 (Hitachi-Sakurajima) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| 108
Division |
Iwai Torajiro |
Activated 1944-9-12 (Manchuria) |
3 Area Army |
Special wartime division.
Composed of 240, 241, and 242
Regiments. Not connected with an earlier 108 Division that
was deactivated in 1939. |
|
| 5
Maritime
Escort
Force |
Yoshitomi Setsuzo |
Activated 1944-9-13? |
Navy General Staff | ||
| LS T-5 |
Completed 1944-9-14 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft 1944-9-14 off Mindanao | ||
| AO Asokawa
Maru |
Completed 1944-9-14 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft
1945-3-28
near Cam Ranh |
||
| 210
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-9-15 |
3 Air Fleet |
48 carrier fighters 48 interceptors 12 night fighters 24 land reconnaissance aircraft 24 carrier bombers 24 carriera ttack aircraft Initially a training unit. |
||
| AK Daiga
Maru |
Completed 1944-9-17 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| AO Yamamura
Maru |
Completed 1944-9-20 |
Navy General Staff | Converted to dry cargo 1945-3-15 |
||
| AO Enki
Maru |
Completed 1944-9-22 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed 1945-1-31 by Boarfish off An Nhon, French Indochina | ||
| AO Asakasan
Maru |
Completed 1944-9-22 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed 1944-11-18 by Peto 100 miles southwest of Korea | ||
| 10 Area Army |
Ando Rikichi | Activated 1944-9-22 (Taipeh) | Army General Staff | ||
| AO Daito
Maru |
Completed 1944-9-26 |
Navy General Staff | Converted to dry cargo 1945-3.
Sunk by aircraft 1945-8-9 off Rashin. |
||
| AO Yamazono
Maru |
Completed 1944-9-28 |
Navy General Staff | Converted to dry cargo 1945-2-15 |
||
| AK Yuzan
Maru #2 |
Completed 1944-9-29 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-11-15 by Jack
40 miles southwest of Cana, French
Indochina |
||
| AO Awakawa Maru | Completed 1944-9-30 | Navy General Staff | |||
| DE Kaya |
Completed 1944-9-30 (Maizuru) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| SS Ro-55 | Completed 1944-9-30 (Tamano) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk 1945-2-7 off Iba by Thomason | ||
| DE Kashi |
Completed 1944-9-30 (Osaka) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| DE Hinoki |
Completed 1944-9-30 (Yokosuka) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk by gunfire 1945-1-7 off Manila | ||
| 701 Air Group |
Activated <1944-10 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 4
Air
Fleet |
Toshihara |
Activated 1944-10 (Philippines) |
Navy General Staff | ||
| Southwest
Area
Fleet Land Based Air Force |
Fukudome Shigeru |
Activated 1944-10 |
Southwest
Area
Fleet |
||
| Malaya
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-10 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| Matsushima
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-10 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 951
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-10 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 23 Air Regiment |
Activated 1944-10 (Ohta) |
Army General Staff | Ki-43 Oscar Participated in the Iwo Jima campaigns. |
||
| 200 Air
Regiment |
Activated 1944-10 (Akeno) |
Army General Staff | Ki-84 Frank.
Formed from instructors at Akeno Flying School. Participated in the second Philippines campaign where it took heavy losses. |
||
| 721
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-10-1 |
2 Air Fleet |
Kamikaze
unit equipped with MXY7 Oka |
||
| 20
Air
Flotilla |
Asaakira
Kuni |
Activated 1944-10-1 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| SS I-371 | Completed 1944-10-2 (Mitsubishi-Kobe) | Navy General Staff | History. Torpedoed 1945-2-24 off Bungo Suido by Lagarto | ||
| PB Okinawa |
Completed 1944-10-3 (Tsurumi) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk by aircraft 1945-7-30 at Maizuru | ||
| AO Daietsu
Maru |
Completed 1944-10-6 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1945-1-31 by Boarfish
and finished off by aircraft off French
Indochina |
||
| AO Ohtsusan
Maru |
Completed 1944-10-6 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft 1945-1-12 25 miles northeast of Binh Dinh, French Indochina | ||
| SS I-369 | Completed 1944-10-9 (Yokosuka) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| 119
Division |
Shiozawa Seisen |
Activated 1944-10-11 (Hailar) | 4 Army | Special wartime division.
Created from 8
Border Guard Brigade. Composed of 253, 254,
and 255 Regiments. |
|
| CV Katsuragi |
Completed 1944-10-15 (Kure) |
Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| AO Ojikasan
Maru |
Completed 1944-10-15 |
Navy General Staff | Converted to dry cargo
1945-3-20. Torpedoed 1945-6-13 by Bonefish off Inchon, |
||
| PB Ukuru |
Completed 1944-10-16 (Tsurimi)
|
Navy General Staff | History.
|
||
| AO Daiei
Maru |
Completed 1944-10-18 |
Navy General Staff | Mined
1945-6-3 off Shimonoseki |
||
| AO Akikawa
Maru |
Completed 1944-10-18 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-12-2 by Sea
Devil off Shichito Islands, Japan |
||
| AO Dairetsu
Maru |
Completed 1944-10-20 |
Navy General Staff | Converted to dry cargo 1945-2-28. |
||
| AO Shinyu
Maru |
Completed 1944-10-23 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| SC Ch-57 |
Completed 1944-10-28 |
Navy General Staff | History.
Sunk 1945-6-12 off Sabang
by Tarter, Eskimo,
and Nubian |
||
| DE Kaede |
Completed 1944-10-30 (Yokosuka)
|
Navy General Staff | History.
|
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| AO Enkei
Maru |
Completed 1944-10-30 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| AK Eiryaku
Maru |
Completed 1944-10-31 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft
1945-7-14
off Muroran. Salvaged
postwar
(1947) |
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| AO Eisho
Maru |
Completed 1944-10-31 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 19
Depot
Division |
Ota
Sadaaki |
Activated 1944-11 (Rashin) |
Korea Army |
Supporting 19 Division. |
|
| 1 Airborne Raiding
Group |
Tsukada Rikichi |
Activated 1944-11 |
Army General Staff | ||
| 71 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Yamamura Hyoe |
Activated 1944-11? (south Borneo) |
Army General Staff | ||
| Urato
Air
Group |
Beppu Akitomo |
Activated 1944-11 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| LS T-13 |
Completed 1944-11-1 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| PB Kume |
Completed 1944-11-3 (Hitachi-Sakurajima) | Navy General Staff | History. Torpedoed 1945-1-28 off Tsingtao by Spadefish | ||
| AO Engen
Maru |
Completed 1944-11-3 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1945-2-6 by Pampanito
260 miles south of Saigon |
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| LS T-11 |
Completed 1944-11-5 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft
1944-12-7
off Leyte |
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| SS I-372 |
Completed 1944-11-8 (Yokosuka) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk 1945-7-18 at Yokosuka by aircraft | ||
| AK Eitoku
Maru |
Completed 1944-11-8 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| LS T-12 |
Completed 1944-11-11 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1944-12-13 off Takao by Pintado |
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| AO Daigyo
Maru |
Completed 1944-11-12 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1945-2-7 by Guavina
150 miles northeast of Dungun, Malaya |
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| AK Meishu
Maru |
Completed 1944-11-14 |
Navy General Staff | Mined
1945-8-15 in Kanmon
Strait, Japan |
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| SS Ro-56 | Completed 1944-11-15 (Tamano) | Navy General Staff | History. Sunk 1945-4-9 off Okinawa by Mertz and Monssen | ||
| PB Ikuna | Completed 1944-11-15 (Hitachi-Sakurajima) | Navy General Staff | History.
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| 101
Escort
Squadron |
Shibuya Shiro |
Activated 1944-11-15 |
Navy General Staff | Deactivated 1945-3-25 |
|
| AO Encho
Maru |
Completed 1944-11-16 |
Navy General Staff | Converted to dry cargo 1945-4-4 |
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| 120
Division |
Yanagawa Shinichi |
Activated 1944-11-21
(Tungning: 131.144E 44.063N) |
Kwantung Army | Special wartime division.
Composed of 259, 260, and 261
Regiments. Redeployed to Korea
1945-4 |
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| SSA Ha-101 | Navy General Staff | History. | |||
| DE Sakura |
Completed 1944-11-25 (Yokosuka)
|
Navy General Staff | History. Mined 1945-7-11 at Osaka | ||
| 101
Air
Flotilla |
Yamada Sadayoshi |
Activated 1944-11-25 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| PB Shinnan | Completed 1944-11-26 (Uraga-Tokyo) | Navy General Staff | History.
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| DE Nara |
Completed 1944-11-26 (Osaka) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
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| 53 Air Training
Division |
Kinoshita Isamu |
Activated 1944-11-27 (Japan) |
Army General Staff | Redesignated 53 Air Division in 1945. |
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| AO Oesan
Maru |
Completed 1944-11-28 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| AO Shingi
Maru |
Completed 1944-11-29 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft
1945-5-6 in Inland Sea |
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| CV Shinano |
Partially completed
1944-11-29 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed 1944-11-29 by Archerfish while still incomplete and under way between shipyards | ||
| AO Tamon
Maru #16 |
Completed 1944-11-30 |
Navy General Staff | Mined 1945-8-12 100 miles northwest of Iki Tettoshiima, Japan | ||
| DE Tsubaki |
Completed 1944-11-30 (Maizuru)
|
Navy General Staff | History.
|
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| CL Sakawa |
Completed 1944-11-30 (Sasebo) | Navy General Staff | History.
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| AO Hario |
Completed 1944-12 |
Navy General Staff | Mined 1945-3-3 off Hainan | ||
| 8
Maritime
Escort
Force |
Yoshitomi Setsuzo |
Activated 1944-12 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| 58 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Sato
Bunzo |
Activated 1944-12 (Luzon) |
14 Area Army |
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| 72 Independent
Mixed Brigade |
Yamamoto Tsunoru |
Activated 1944-12 (Burma) |
33 Army |
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| 11
Air Group |
Activated 1944-12 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| 903
Air
Group |
Nomoto Tameki |
Activated 1944-12 |
Navy General Staff | ||
| Yamaoka
Parachute Brigade |
Activated 1944-12 |
Navy General Staff | 300 men raised from the SNLF to
land by submarine at Santa
Barbara and shoot their way into the aircraft
factories in the area. They were then to be used in a suicide raid on the Marianas airfields.
The raid was uncovered by cryptography
and preempted by American air raids on the air bases from
which the Brigade was to launch their raid. |
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| SSA Ha-104 | Completed 1944-12-1 (Kawasaki-Tanagawa) | Navy General Staff | History. | ||
| PB Yaku | Completed 1944-12-5 (Uraga-Tokyo) | Navy General Staff | History. Torpedoed 1945-2-23 near 109.5E 12.7N by Hammerhead | ||
| AO Yamazawa
Maru |
Completed 1944-12-6 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft
1945-1-21
off Takao |
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| SSA Ha-102 | Completed 1944-12-6 (Mitsubishi-Kobe) | Navy General Staff | History. | ||
| AO Tatsuyo
Maru |
Completed 1944-12-7 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1945-1-8 by Barb
30 miles northwest of Taichung, Formosa. |
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| 1
Escort Fleet |
Kishi
Kikuji |
Activated 1944-12-10 |
Combined Fleet | Comprised of 101, 102, 103,
104,
and 105 Escort Squadrons |
|
| AK Eiso
Maru |
Completed 1944-12-11 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1945-6-16 off Muroran |
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| AK Eiroko
Maru |
Completed 1944-12-13 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| DE Keyaki |
Completed 1944-12-15 (Yokosuka)
|
Navy General Staff | History.
|
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| SSA Ha-106 | Completed 1944-12-15 (Kawasaki-Tanagawa) | Navy General Staff | History. | ||
| 631
Air
Group |
Activated 1944-12-15 |
Navy General Staff | |||
| SS I-13 | Navy General Staff | History.
Sunk 1945-7-16 off Yokosuka
by Lawrence C. Taylor
and aircraft
from Anzio |
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| LS T-14 |
Completed 1944-12-18 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft 1945-1-15 off Takao | ||
| LS T-15 |
Completed 1944-12-20 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1945-1-17 off Kagoshima
by Tautog |
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| DD Hanazuki | Completed 1944-12-26 (Maizuru) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
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| DD Haruzuki | Completed 1944-12-28 (Sasebo) | Navy General Staff | History.
|
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| AK Kozan
Maru #2 |
Completed 1944-12-29 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft 1945-5-6 off Mokpo, Korea | ||
| AK Daiman
Maru #1 |
Completed 1944-12-30 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1945-1-24 by Atule
in Yellow Sea |
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| SS I-400 |
Completed 1944-12-30 (Kure) |
Navy General Staff | History.
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| AO Dainan
Maru |
Completed 1944-12-30 |
Navy General Staff | Sunk by aircraft 1945-5-5 25 miles east of Ikijima, Japan | ||
| AO Toyohi
Maru |
Completed 1944-12-30 |
Navy General Staff | Torpedoed
1945-5-4 by Tinosa
250 miles southeast of Hong
Kong |
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| LS T-16 |
Completed 1944-12-31 |
Navy General Staff |
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