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58th Infantry Regiment

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Code name: 烈一〇三五一
Higher formation: 第三一師団
Depot district: 高田
Raised at: 高田
Colours received: 明38.6.8
Commanding officer: 福永転
Main theatres: the Russo-Japanese War - the Siberian Intervention - the Second Sino-Japanese War - the Second World War
Action: the Imphal operation

War record

8 July 1943, received its colours at Takada→under the 31st Division, with Major General 宮崎繁三郎 commanding the regiment→1944, took part in the attack on Kohima and the fighting for Sangshak→about two months of attrition, with some 500 killed and wounded→with supply cut off and the situation worsening, the division commander 佐藤 decided on his own authority to withdraw

The regiment fought a two-month war of attrition against British-Indian forces over a three-way road junction at Kohima, but could not break through, and withdrew on the division commander's own authority.

Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本誌面72

Men of this unit

佐藤幸徳中将第三一師団長としてコヒマ三叉路攻撃を命令
宮崎繁三郎少将第三一歩兵団長・左突進隊としてコヒマ攻略

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72

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