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114th Infantry Regiment

🟡 索引

Code name: 菊八九〇五
Higher formation: 第一八師団
Depot district: 福岡
Raised at: 福岡
Colours received: 昭12.9.9
Commanding officer: 久？（判読不能）
Main theatres: the Second Sino-Japanese War - the Second World War
Action: the conquest of Burma

War record

January–May 1942 (part of the 18th Division). After the capture of Rangoon, formed a motorised "pursuit force" for the drive on Mandalay→pushed north through central Burma after the British-Indian and Chinese forces→late April 1942, entered Mandalay

According to the book, Division Commander 牟田口, determined not to lose out in advance speed to the rival 55th Division, kept driving the pursuit unit onward.

Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本誌面34-35

この部隊の紙片は、まだ蔵にありません。

What is still not known

Commanding officer: this field could not be read in our copy (the top of the page is cut off).
Men of this unit: apart from the commander, no names have been gathered yet.

This card is made only of facts copied from one book. Only what can be confirmed against a primary source will one day become 🟢. An empty field means the book does not say. Nothing has been filled in by guesswork.

Source: 戦史の本誌面34

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