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56th Shinbu Unit

56th Shinbu Unit

🟡 索引
Higher formation
陸軍特別攻撃隊(振武隊)
Main theatres
10 members
Action
Sortied from: Chiran Airfield

Writings left by a member, Uehara Ryoji, are included in Kike Wadatsumi no Koe ("Listen to the Voices from the Sea").

Men of this unit

  • 池田元威 少尉 原文の筆頭(🟡隊長とみられる)
  • 金子範夫 大尉 隊員
  • 小山信介 大尉 隊員
  • 四家稔 大尉 隊員
  • 上原良司 少尉 隊員
  • 京谷英治 大尉 隊員
  • 朝倉豊 大尉 隊員
  • 小澤幸夫 大尉 隊員
  • 鈴木重幸 大尉 隊員
  • 川路晃 大尉 隊員
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).
  • Code name: not confirmed from our source.
  • War record: where this unit went and what it did has not been traced 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: 振武隊の名簿(一覧に名前の出ている全数・🟡索引)

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