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78th Infantry Regiment

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Code name: 朝二〇五三
Higher formation: 中井支隊
Depot district: 龍山
Raised at: 龍山
Colours received: 大5.4.18
Commanding officer: 松本松次郎
Main theatres: the Manchurian Incident - the Second Sino-Japanese War - the Second World War
Action: the fighting after the withdrawal from Lae

War record

September 1943 – March 1944 (part of the 中井 Detachment). After the withdrawal from Lae, the 中井 Detachment (built around the 78th Infantry Regiment) covered the move to Madang by way of the Finisterre Range→counter-attacked the Australian troops who had dropped by parachute at Nadzab and fought covering actions in the Finisterre Range→January 1944, resisted the US and Australian forces that landed at Saidor

None in particular.

Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本誌面53

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53

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