Reinforcements Mar-Apr 42
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 Reinforcements for the Japanese 15th Army

Phase 2 of Operations - early 1942

 

18 Division (Lieut.-General Mutaguchi)            (arrived Rangoon 8th April 1942)

55th Infantry Regiment

56th Infantry Regiment

114th Infantry Regiment         

1st Tank Regiment  

12th  Cavalry Regiment                                           (horsed)

18th Mountain Gun Regiment                    

(two battalions of 12 guns each, one battalion of 12 X 75mm guns)

12th Engineer Regiment

12th Transport Regiment

 

56 Division (Lieut.-General Watanabe           (arrived Rangoon 26-27th March 1942)

113th Infantry Regiment

146th Infantry Regiment             

(arrived Rangoon 19th April 1942, from operations in the Netherlands East Indies)

148th Infantry Regiment         

14th Tank Regiment                                                  

(three companies of 11 tanks and RHQ with three tanks, all light tank Type 95)

56th Reconnaisance Regiment                               (motorised)            

56th Field Gun Regiment                                         (two battalions of 12 X 75mm guns each, one battalion of 12 X 105mm guns)

 

56th Engineer Regiment

56th Transport Regiment

 

to 33 Division                                       (arrived Rangoon end March 1942)

213th Infantry Regiment (Colonel Miyawaki)

two mountain gun battalions           

(of 33rd Mountain Artillery Regiment)

Army Troops 

(all later assigned in support of 33 Division)

 

21st Mixed Heavy Artillery Unit                                (4 X 105mm and 4 X 150mm guns)

26th Independent Engineer Regiment                       (water transport)

51st Independent Field AntiAircraft Unit                   (one company of 75mm AA guns)       

one company of anti-tank guns

 

 

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