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128th Field Artillery Regiment

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Code name: 英武一五二八五
Higher formation: 第一二八師団
Depot district: 金沢
Raised at: 東寧
Colours received: 昭20.7.10
Commanding officer: 勝又文雄（少佐）
Main theatres: Not known
Action: the fighting at 東満・羅子溝 (eastern Manchuria)

War record

Part of the 128th Division→posted to the 羅子溝 sector in eastern Manchuria→immediately after the war opened in August 1945 it engaged Soviet forces near 完勝山, going into action short of equipment, and a battalion took heavy losses

The record states that the regiment went into battle without adequate equipment, and the battalion suffered heavy losses.

Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本誌面186

Men of this unit

勝又文雄少佐野砲兵第一二八連隊長。8月13日戦死

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186

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