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65th Infantry Regiment

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Code name: 鏡
Higher formation: 第一三師団
Depot district: 会津若松
Raised at: 会津若松
Colours received: 明41.5.9
Commanding officer: 伊藤義彦
Main theatres: the Second Sino-Japanese War - the Second World War
Action: the 湘桂 (Hunan–Guangxi) operation

War record

After the attack was broken off, prepared again and made a third attack (8 August)→took Hengyang

In the midst of the attack on Hengyang, a column on the same page reports that a B-29 flying from Chengdu, Sichuan, carried out the first air raid on the Yawata Steel Works in Kitakyushu.

Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本誌面135

At Hengyang, the army commander's order to break off the attack is described in the record as a courageous decision to halt the river crossing

この部隊の紙片は、まだ蔵にありません。

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134

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