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5th Artillery Intelligence Regiment

🟡 索引

Code name: 断一〇三〇
Higher formation: 第一四軍
Depot district: 横須賀
Raised at: 習志野
Colours received: 昭15.7.15
Commanding officer: ？滋（§0-5）
Main theatres: Not known
Action: the second campaign to capture Bataan

War record

Part of the 14th Army→April 1942, the second Bataan offensive; supported the heavy artillery's preparations with target location, survey and observation

The record states that the regiment carried out survey and observation duties despite the difficulty of photo interpretation and terrain assessment.

Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本誌面175

この部隊の紙片は、まだ蔵にありません。

What is still not known

Commanding officer: this field could not be read in our copy (the top of the page is cut off).
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175

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