145th Infantry Regiment
145th Infantry Regiment
🟡 索引- Code name
- 静一九六三?
- Higher formation
- 小笠原兵団
- Depot district
- 鹿児島
- Raised at
- 鹿児島
- Colours received
- 昭12（月日?）
- Commanding officer
- 池田増雄
- Main theatres
- Not known
- Action
- the Battle of Iwo Jima
War record
Iwo Jima. 19 February 1945, the US 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions landed→resistance continued into mid-March→14 March, the regimental commander burned the colours inside a cave→16 March, the Americans delivered a written demand to surrender→after the deadline was extended by two days, the mouth of the cave was sealed
The enemy commander wrote a letter urging surrender and had it delivered to the mouth of the cave. (see below)
Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本 誌面97
Men of this unit
- 栗林忠道 中将 小笠原兵団長として硫黄島防衛を統括・地下陣地構築へ戦術転換
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96
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