230th Infantry Regiment
230th Infantry Regiment
🟡 索引- Code name
- 陸八九一六
- Higher formation
- 第三八師団
- Depot district
- 静岡・岐阜
- Raised at
- 静岡
- Colours received
- 昭14.9.13
- Commanding officer
- 東海林俊成
- Main theatres
- the Greater East Asia War
- Action
- the conquest of Java
War record
Raised after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War (around 1939); moved out from Guangdong Province in China just before the Pacific War began and took part in the assault on Hong Kong→March 1942, landed in Bantam Bay in the Java operation as the 東海林 Detachment (built around the 230th Infantry Regiment)→given the task of pushing on to Kalijati airfield and the Bandung fortress→5 March, sent the 江頭 Detachment ahead on its own initiative to storm the key ground at Bandung→8 March the Netherlands Indies forces surrendered on the Bandung front and the operation succeeded
According to the book, Detachment Commander 東海林 was detained in the Dutch East Indies after the war on suspicion of war crimes over his conduct during the Hong Kong campaign, delaying his return home.
Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本 誌面26
Core of the detachment that took the Bandung fortress. After the war its commander was detained on suspicion of war crimes over the Hong Kong campaign, and his return home was delayed
Men of this unit
- 東海林俊成 大佐 独断でバンドン要塞攻略を強行（東海林支隊）
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Source: 戦史の本 誌面26
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