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3rd Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Field Artillery Regiment
🟡 索引- Code name
- 幸三七〇八
- Higher formation
- 第三師団
- Depot district
- 名古屋
- Raised at
- 名古屋
- Colours received
- 明17.5.24
- Commanding officer
- 村川武寿
- Main theatres
- Not known
- Action
- the operation to destroy Changde
War record
Part of the 3rd Division→November 1943, the operation to destroy Changde; broke the city wall with point-blank fire and supported the infantry assault
The regiment blasted a breach in the walls of Changde — ten metres high — with direct fire at close range.
Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本 誌面176
Men of this unit
- 村川武寿 大佐 支隊を指揮し常徳城攻略
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176
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