112th Infantry Regiment
112th Infantry Regiment
🟡 索引- Code name
- 壮八一五
- Higher formation
- 第五五師団
- Depot district
- 丸亀
- Raised at
- 丸亀
- Colours received
- 昭15.9.27
- Commanding officer
- 棚橋真作
- Main theatres
- the Second Sino-Japanese War - the Second World War
- Action
- the second Akyab operation
War record
27 February 1944, received its colours at Marugame→under the 55th Division→February 1944, encircled the Indian 5th Division in the Sinzweya basin to support the Imphal operation→water and food ran out, and after a week of attacks under British-Indian counter-attack it could not take the position→supplies did not reach it, it was driven off and withdrew→245 men killed
At Sinzweya the regiment surrounded an Indian division but could not force its collapse, and withdrew after losing 245 men killed.
Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本 誌面71
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Source: 戦史の本 誌面71
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