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10th Infantry Regiment

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Code name: 鉄五五四八
Higher formation: 第一〇師団
Depot district: 岡山
Raised at: 岡山
Colours received: 明7.12.18
Commanding officer: 岡山誠夫
Main theatres: the Satsuma Rebellion - the First Sino-Japanese War - the Russo-Japanese War - the Siberian Intervention - the Second Sino-Japanese War - the Second World War
Action: the decisive battle of Luzon

War record

Formed at Okayama, moved from Manchuria→landed near San Fernando Point at the southern end of Luzon at the end of December 1944→until the main American landing (January 1945) its only opponents were anti-Japanese guerrillas→from February it fought US forces in the Balete Pass sector, at close quarters throughout→the main body of the regiment was almost entirely wiped out at Balete Pass; few survived

For more than a month after landing, without adequate tanks, the regiment was occupied entirely with fighting anti-Japanese guerrillas, and did not engage the main American force in earnest until February.

Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本誌面110

As written in the book. Other sources place San Fernando Point and Aparri in northern Luzon.

The site of its barracks is today Okayama University

Men of this unit

内藤正治大尉第三大隊を率いミンダナオ島に配属

この部隊の紙片は、まだ蔵にありません。

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Source: 戦史の本誌面110

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