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27th Tank Regiment

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Code name: 球一二〇二
Higher formation: 第三二軍
Depot district: 大阪
Raised at: 勃利
Colours received: 昭19.3.17
Commanding officer: 村上？（中佐）
Main theatres: the Greater East Asia War
Action: the Okinawa operation

War record

Part of the 32nd Army→April–May 1945, the Okinawa campaign; fought on the defensive on the road east of Shuri→was so worn down that it stripped the machine guns from its tanks and went over to fighting on foot

The record states that the regiment was driven to the point of stripping the machine guns from its tanks for use in dismounted fighting.

Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本誌面194

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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194

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