User:Hungrydog55/sandbox/military/sino-jap/1941-01 oob South Henan
The Battle of South Henan, fought late January through early February 1941, was one of the 22 major engagements between the Imperial Japanese Army and National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Japan
Opposing commanders
Sonobe Waichiro
Eleventh Army xxx General Waichirō Sonobe
- 3rd Division – Fusataro Hanjima [1]?
- 5th Infantry Brigade
- 6th Infantry Regiment
- 68th Infantry Regiment
- 29th Infantry Brigade
- 18th Infantry Regiment
- 34th Infantry Regiment
- 3rd Field Artillery Regiment
- 3rd Cavalry Regiment
- 3rd Engineer Regiment
- 3rd Transport Regiment
- 5th Infantry Brigade
- 39th Division – Lt. Gen Keisaku Muragami [4,5]
- 39th Infantry Brigade Group
- 231st Infantry Rregiments
- 232nd Infantry Regiments
- 233rd Infantry Regiments
- 39th Recon Regiment
- 39th Field Artillery Regiment
- 39th Military Engineer Regiment
- 39th Transport Regiment
- 39th Infantry Brigade Group
- 4th Division (partial) – Lt. Gen Kenzo Kitano [4,5]
- 4th Infantry Brigade group:
- 8th Infantry Regiment
- 37th Infantry Regiment
- 61st Infantry Regiment
- 4th Recon Regiment
- 4th Field Artillery Regiment
- 4th Military Engineer Regiment
- 4th Transport Regiment
- 4th Infantry Brigade group:
- 40th Division – Lt-General Naojikiro Amaya, Manchuria 10/2/39-8/25/1941[4,5]
- 40th Infantry Brigade group:
- 234th Infantry regiment
- 235th Infantry regiment
- 236th Infantry regiment
- 40th Cavalry regiment
- 40th mountain artillery regiment
- 40th military engineer regiment
- 40th Transport regiment
- 40th Infantry Brigade group:
- Kurahashi Detachment/15th Division – Col. Kurahashi
- 60th Infantry Regiment (from 15th Division in the Nanchang area)
- 17th Division – Lt-General Morito Hirabayashi[4,5]
- 17th Infantry Brigade Group
- 53rd Infantry Regiment
- 54th Infantry Regiment
- 81st Infantry Regiment
- 23rd Field Artillery Regiment
- 7th Military Engineer Regiment
- 17th Transport Regiment
- 17th Infantry Brigade Group
- 18th Independent Mixed Brigade – Lt. Gen Taka Kayashima 1939- 1941[4,5]
- 92nd Independent infantry battalion
- 93rd Independent infantry battalion
- 94th Independent infantry battalion
- 95th Independent infantry battalion
- 96th independent infantry battalion
- artillery troops
- labor troops
- signal communication unit.
- 7th Tank Regiment – ?
- 13th Tank Regiment – ?
- ? Tank Regiment – ? [1] (one of 3 Tank Regiments)
- 1 Separate Heavy Artillery Regiment
China
Opposing commanders
Chinese guy
5th War Area – Li Tsung-jen [1]
- 2nd Army Group – Sun Lianzhong
- 55th Corps -Tsao Fu-lin
- 74th Division – Tsao Fu-lin
- 29th Division – Li Tseng-chih
- 59th Corps – Huang Wei-kang
- 38th Division – Li Chiu-sze
- 180th Division – Liu Chen-shan
- 68th Corps – Liu Ju-ming
- 143rd Division – Huang Chao-sung
- 119th Division – Chen Hsin-chi
- 36th Provincial Division – Liu Ju-chen
- 55th Corps -Tsao Fu-lin
- 33rd Army Group – Feng Zhi'an
- 77th Corps – Feng Chih-an (concurrent
- 37th Division – Li Chiu-sze
- 179th Division – Liu Chen-shan
- 30th Corps – Chih Feng-cheng
- 27th Division – Hsu Wen-yao
- 30th Division – Liu Chen-shan
- 77th Corps – Feng Chih-an (concurrent
- 2nd Army – Ho Chu-kuo
- Separate Inf. Brigade
- 3rd Division -
- 31st Army Group – Tang Enbo
- 92nd Corps – Li Hsien-chou
- 21st Division – Hsu Wen-yao
- 142nd Division – Fu Li-ping
- 14th Provincial Division – Liao Yun-tse
- 85th Corps – Li Hsien-chou
- 4th Division – Shih Chueh
- 25th Division – Ni Tsu-hui
- 11th Reserve Division – Chang Tang-hsiang
- 29th Corps – Chen Ta-ching
- 19th Division – Lai Ju-hsiung
- 91st Division – Wang Yu-wen
- 16th Provincial Division – Li Chiang
- 13th Corps – Chang Hsueh-chung
- 89th Division – Shu Yung
- 110th Division – Wu Shao-chou
- New 1st Division – Tsai Chi
- 84th Corps – Mo Shu-chieh
- ?
- 92nd Corps – Li Hsien-chou
- 36th Corps – ?
- ?
- 15th Sep. Brigade – Huang Tze-hua
- 14th Artillery Regiment
- 4th Separate Engineer Battalion
- 4th Battery, 1st Btn. 56th AT Regiment
Sources
- [1] Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai, History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) 2nd Ed., 1971. Translated by Wen Ha-hsiung, Chung Wu Publishing; 33, 140th Lane, Tung-hwa Street, Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China.