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90th Infantry Regiment

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Code name: 凪二〇〇六
Higher formation: 第一〇七師団
Depot district: 弘前
Raised at: 弘前
Colours received: 昭17.1.27
Commanding officer: 早田正義（少佐）
Main theatres: the Pacific War
Action: the war against the Soviet Union (western front)

War record

December 1941, the 107th Division completed its formation and the regiment was posted to the Arshaan sector on the western border→9 August 1945 the war opened and Soviet forces invaded→the order to fall back on Hsinking did not get through and there was confusion→after the war ended the regiment was finally found by an air search, and ceasefire talks followed

The regiment was left isolated after the withdrawal order failed to reach it, and its location was finally confirmed by aerial search only after the war ended.

Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本誌面156

Cut off after a withdrawal order never reached it, the regiment's whereabouts were confirmed only after the war, by an aerial search

Men of this unit

荒井初雄少佐第一大隊長。退路を遮断したソ連軍を阻止
田中正義少佐第二大隊長。追尾するソ連軍を迎撃

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156

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