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47th Infantry Regiment

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Code name: 海八九四四
Higher formation: 第四八師団
Depot district: 大分
Raised at: 大分
Colours received: 明31.3.24
Commanding officer: 柳勇
Main theatres: the Russo-Japanese War - the Siberian Intervention - the Second Sino-Japanese War - the Second World War
Action: the conquest of Java

War record

Before the Pacific War the regiment was formed and trained in Taiwan for the invasion of the Philippines→was switched from the Philippine front to the invasion of Java (placed in the 48th Division's order of battle)→before dawn on 1 March 1942, landed near Tjilatjap on the north coast of Java at the same time as the 坂口 Detachment→advanced inland to secure the bridge at Kediri→hurried as far as Kertosono and took the Kediri bridge intact→after the Java operation, moved to Surabaya when the Netherlands Indies forces surrendered

The book records an episode in which Regimental Commander 柳 worried that the bridge had fallen to the enemy, when in fact it had been captured intact.

Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本誌面28-29

Men of this unit

柳勇 — 前線に立ちケデリの橋を無傷で占領するよう指揮

この部隊の紙片は、まだ蔵にありません。

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28

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