59th Infantry Regiment
59th Infantry Regiment
🟡 索引- Code name
- 照七六八
- Higher formation
- 第一四師団
- Depot district
- 宇都宮
- Raised at
- 宇都宮
- Colours received
- 明38.8.8
- Commanding officer
- 後藤丑雄（少佐・第一大隊長）
- Main theatres
- the Russo-Japanese War - the Siberian Intervention - the Manchurian Incident - the First Shanghai Incident - the Second Sino-Japanese War - the Second World War
- Action
- the annihilation battle of Angaur
War record
Received its colours in 1905→under the 14th Division→17 September 1944, US forces landed on Angaur, and the 1st Battalion (Major 後藤丑雄) met them against odds of eighteen to one→shifted to a redoubt position in limestone caves and fought on→by mid-October almost the whole battalion had been killed; about 150 survived as prisoners
Despite an overwhelming numerical disparity of 18 to 1, the regiment continued to resist from a fortified position built around a limestone cave.
Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本 誌面94-95
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94
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