33rd Infantry Regiment
33rd Infantry Regiment
🟡 索引- Code name
- 垣六五五八
- Higher formation
- 第一六師団
- Depot district
- 津
- Raised at
- 津
- Colours received
- 明31.3.24
- Commanding officer
- 鈴木戌之助
- Main theatres
- the Russo-Japanese War - the Siberian Intervention - the Manchurian Incident - the Second Sino-Japanese War - the Greater East Asia War
- Action
- the decisive battle of Leyte
War record
Formed at Tsu→under the 16th Division→October 1944, took up the defence of the Tacloban sector on Leyte→fought the American landing force, said to be eighteen times its strength, and had a hard time of it→later kept up resistance in the Santa Fe sector and elsewhere
The regiment fought American landing forces at Tacloban, reportedly outnumbered as much as 18 to 1.
Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本 誌面100
What is still not known
- Men of this unit: apart from the commander, no names have been gathered yet.
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100
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