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144th Infantry Regiment

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Code name: 壮八四一七
Higher formation: 南海支隊
Depot district: 高知
Raised at: 高知
Colours received: 昭15.9.27
Commanding officer: 楠瀬正雄
Main theatres: Not known
Action: the operation to capture Port Moresby

War record

From August 1942 (part of the South Seas Detachment). The South Seas Detachment (built around the 144th Infantry Regiment) landed in the Buna area of New Guinea to take Port Moresby→undertook the overland crossing towards Port Moresby by way of Buna and Kokoda→struggled with the steep terrain of the Owen Stanley Range, Australian resistance and short supply→September, reached the area of Isurava and the Gap, but the worsening situation on Guadalcanal brought orders to break off the operation and withdraw→pulled back over the Owen Stanley Range to Buna and Gona

None in particular.

Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本誌面50-51

Men of this unit

百武晴吉中将第七軍司令官として南海支隊を編成
堀井富太郎少将南海支隊を率いグアム島を占領

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50

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