28th Infantry Regiment
28th Infantry Regiment
🟡 索引- Code name
- 熊九二〇八
- Higher formation
- 一木支隊
- Depot district
- 旭川
- Raised at
- 旭川
- Colours received
- 明33.12.22
- Commanding officer
- 一木清直
- Main theatres
- the Russo-Japanese War - the Manchurian Incident - the Soviet-Japanese border conflicts - the Greater East Asia War
- Action
- the battle for Guadalcanal
War record
August 1942 (part of the 7th Division). The 一木 Detachment (Colonel 一木清直, built around the 28th Infantry Regiment) was formed to retake Guadalcanal→on the night of 18 August the advance echelon landed near Taivu Point→before dawn on 21 August it made a night attack on the US Marine beachhead→stopped by American interlocking fire, the advance echelon was destroyed, and the book records that Colonel 一木 was killed
According to the book, Colonel 一木 believed it was "traditional for a detachment to attack along the coast using only night raids," and had taught this tactic for many years at the Army Infantry School.
Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本 誌面42-43
Core of the Ichiki Detachment. Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki held that a detachment attacks along the coast by night assault alone, and taught that method for years at the Army Infantry School
Men of this unit
- 一木清直 大佐 一木支隊を率いガ島奪回を命ぜられる
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42
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