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6th Field Artillery Regiment
6th Field Artillery Regiment
🟡 索引- Code name
- 明治一七〇二四
- Higher formation
- 第六師団
- Depot district
- 熊本
- Raised at
- 熊本
- Colours received
- 明37.5.24
- Commanding officer
- 中村光平
- Main theatres
- Not known
- Action
- the second Torokina operation
War record
Part of the 6th Division→March 1944, the second Torokina operation; fought US forces for Hill 800 and Hill 600 near Torokina Point on Bougainville
Short of ammunition, the regiment massed its guns in an attempt to counter the Americans' heavier equipment.
Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, 戦史の本 誌面178
この部隊の紙片は、まだ蔵にありません。
What is still not known
- Men of this unit: apart from the commander, no names have been gathered yet.
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Source: 戦史の本 誌面178
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