66th Infantry Regiment
66th Infantry Regiment
🟡 索引- Code name
- 基二一〇一
- Higher formation
- 第五一師団
- Depot district
- 宇都宮
- Raised at
- 宇都宮
- Colours received
- 明41.5.8
- Commanding officer
- 荒木勝時
- Main theatres
- the Second Sino-Japanese War - the Second World War
- Action
- the fighting at Lae and Salamaua
War record
July–September 1943 (part of the 51st Division). Given the defence of the Lae and Salamaua sector→fought hard under heavy US and Australian attack→carried out a difficult withdrawal across the Saruwaged Range→fell back from Lae towards Finschhafen
None in particular.
Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本 誌面52
Its brick kitchen storehouse still stands on a high-school ground in Utsunomiya, registered in 2000 as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property
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Source: 戦史の本 誌面52
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