2nd Infantry Regiment
2nd Infantry Regiment
🟡 索引- Code name
- 照七四六
- Higher formation
- 第一四師団
- Depot district
- 水戸
- Raised at
- 水戸
- Colours received
- 明7.12.19（§0-2）
- Commanding officer
- 中川州男
- Main theatres
- the Satsuma Rebellion - the First Sino-Japanese War - the Russo-Japanese War - the Siberian Intervention - the Manchurian Incident
- Action
- the annihilation battle of Peleliu
War record
Raised in the Meiji period→under the 14th Division (Mito)→24 April 1944, moved to Palau→landed on Peleliu and built cave positions in the raised coral→15 September 1944, US forces landed; it counter-attacked at the water's edge and formed close-assault suicide squads→after three months of resistance, organised fighting ended on 24 November; few survived
According to the book, the American forces initially scoffed that they could take the island in as little as four days, but the regiment held out for three months from cave positions in the raised coral reef.
Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本 誌面92-93
The regiment that defended Peleliu. American planners at first reckoned the island could be taken in about four days; it was held for three months from cave positions in the raised coral
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92
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