User:Hungrydog55/sandbox/military/sino-jap/1940-02 oob South-Guanxi
The order of battle for the Battle of South Guangxi by country is as follows:
Japan
Ground forces
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21st Army (to Feb. 9th 1940) 22nd Army (10 Feb 1940 – 19 Nov 1940, Army disbanded)
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January 1940 reinforcements from Canton
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Air forces
Army
- 21st Independent Aviation Corps, IJA [3][4]
- Independent 82nd Dokuritsu Hiko Chutai (S. China)
- Light bomber squadron (reconnaissance aircraft)
- Independent 84th Dokuritsu Hiko Chutai (Canton) – Captain Magoji Hara
- Nakajima Ki-27 (fighter aircraft)
- Independent 82nd Dokuritsu Hiko Chutai (S. China)
Navy
- Fifth Fleet [4]
- Admiral Nobutake Kondō [7]
- 3rd Combined Air Unit
Notes:
- Initial landing and advance to Nanning by 5th Division and Taiwan Composite Brigade. Guards Mixed Brigade and the 18th Division were sent as reinforcements from Canton area in January 1940.[5]
After 9 February 1940, the 18th Division was returned to Canton and the 21st Army was disbanded, the forces of the 21st Army came under the control of the Southern China Area Army (Canton) under General Rikichi Andō (10 Feb 1940 – 5 Oct 1940) and General Jun Ushiroku (5 Oct 1940 – 26 Jun 1941).[6] The forces remaining in Guangxi, now subordinate to South China Front Army, became the Japanese Twenty-Second Army under Lt. Gen Seiichi Kuno (10 Feb 1940 – 19 Nov 1940),[6] until the Army was disbanded at the end of the campaign. On June 3, 1940, the Guards Mixed Brigade became the 1st Guards Brigade of the 1st Guards Division. The 2nd Imperial Guards Infantry Regiment under Col. Kunio Osonoe from 1st Guards Brigade was assigned to the Indochina Expeditionary Army in September, 1940. In October 1940, the remainder of 1st Guards Brigade (1st Guard Regiment and support units) joined other Japanese units occupying French Indochina.
China
Ground forces
Generalissimo's HQ in Kweilin
Pai Chung-hsi [5]
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Air Forces:[7] ::
- C A F 2nd Route Force [4] – Colonel Chang Ting-Meng
- 100 planes [5]
- 115 planes [4]
- 3rd Pursuit Group – Huang Panyang
- 7th Pursuit Squadron – Lu Tian-Long
- 8th Pursuit Squadron – ?
- Polikarpov I-15
- 27th Pursuit Squadron -
- Gloster Gladiator Mk. I, Polikarpov I-
- 29th Pursuit Squadron -
- Gloster Gladiator Mk. I, Polikarpov I-
- 32nd Pursuit Squadron – Wei Yi-Ging †[8][9]
- Gloster Gladiator Mk. I, Polikarpov I-15bis
- 4th Pursuit Group – Liu Chi-Han
- 21st Pursuit Squadron – Lo Ying-Teh
- Polikarpov I-15bis -
- 22nd Pursuit Squadron – Cheng Hsiao-Yu
- Polikarpov I-15bis -
- 23rd Pursuit Squadron – ?
- Polikarpov I-15bis -
- 24th Pursuit Squadron – Su Xian-Ren
- 21st Pursuit Squadron – Lo Ying-Teh
- 5th Pursuit Group ?
- 17th Pursuit Squadron – Captain Cen Zeliu
- Polikarpov I-15bis, Dewoitine D.510
- 26th Pursuit Squadron – ?
- Polikarpov I-16
- 28th Pursuit Squadron – Major Louie Yim-Qun (reassigned to the 3rd PG on 1 October 1938 - Maj. Chen Ruidian)[10]
- Gloster Gladiator Mk. I, Polikarpov I-15bis
- 29th Pursuit Squadron – Captain Ma Kwok-Lim
- Polikarpov I-15bis
- 17th Pursuit Squadron – Captain Cen Zeliu
- 6th Bomber Group – ?
- 19th Bomber Squadron – ?
- 18th Pursuit Squadron – Major Yang Yibai[4]
- Soviet Suprun Group – K. K. Kokkinaki
- Polikarpov I-16[11]
Notes:
1. 16th Army Group and 26th Army Group were original defenders of Gwangxi. Other units were reinforcements which gradually arrived from Hunan, Gwangtung, and Szechuan.[5]
2. On 18 December the Chinese launched a successful counter-offensive against the Japanese in the Kwangsi Province. To support the Chinese Kwangsi-offensive and direct the air-units the more experienced 1st ARC (Colonel Chang Ting-Meng) temporarily replaced the 2nd ARC (Colonel Hsing Chan-Fei) at Liuchou, with the 2nd ARC moving to rear positions at Kwei-Lin.
Taking part in the offensive were 115 aircraft of the 3rd, 4th and 5th PGs, 6th BG, 18th PS and one of the Soviet groups.[4]
References
- ^ a b c Generals from Japan
- ^ 抗日战争时期的侵华日军序列沿革 (Japanese army that invaded China)>
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:3was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b c d e f g h "Sino-Japanese Air War 1937-45".
- ^ a b c d Hsu Long-hsuen, Chang Ming-kai (1972). History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). Translated by Wen Ha-hsiung (2nd ed.). Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China: Chung Wu Publishing. pp. 311 ff.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Gustavsson, Hakans. "Håkans Aviation page – Sino-Japanese Air War 1939". Biplane Fighter Aces - China. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
To support the Chinese Kwangsi-offensive and direct the air-units the more experienced 1st ARC (Colonel Chang Ting-Meng) temporarily replaced the 2nd ARC (Colonel Hsing Chan-Fei) at Liuchou, with the 2nd ARC moving to rear positions at Kwei-Lin. Taking part in the offensive were 115 aircraft of the 3rd, 4th and 5th PGs, 6th BG, 18th PS and one of the Soviet groups.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ 徐 (Xú), 2016, p. 441-442. 韦烈士一清 (Martyr Wei was trained with the Guangxi warlord air force and very familiar with the terrain of South Guangxi and Kunlun Pass; successfully completed many close-air support and interdiction sorties; the fighting peaked at the Pass on 27 December 1939, the 28th and 32nd squadrons shot down three enemy aircraft, but 32nd squadron Capt. Wei Yiqing was himself shot down and killed right over the Kunlun Pass battlefield.)
- ^ Cheung, 2015, p. 51. In supporting the Chinese Army's victorious battle for Kunlun Pass, Capt. Arthur Chin shot down at least one A5M on 27 December 1939, but was hit himself while trying to protect a fellow pilot... suffering serious burns as Capt. Chin maneuvered his burning fighter over friendly lines first before bailing-out in his parachute; Capt. Wei was shot down and killed...
- ^ Gustavsson, Hakans. "Chinese biplane fighter aces - 'Arthur' 'Art' Chin Shui-Tin". Biplane Fighter Aces - China. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
On 1 October 1938, the 28th PS was re-assigned to the 3rd PG and sent to Lanchou to train on I-15bis. Chin, as Squadron Leader went with them. The remaining Gladiators from the 28th and 32nd PS were sent to Liu-Chow in Kwangsi for overhaul. He and two other pilots went down to Liu-chow in August 1939 to pick up three Gladiators to fly back to Lanchou when the Japanese invaded Kwangsi. Thus began the "guerrilla campaign" waged by Art and his small band, which ended in December 1939.
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Bibliography
- Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai (1971). History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Translated by Wen Ha-hsiung (2nd ed.). Chung Wu Publishing.
- Cheung, Raymond (2015). Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 126: Aces of the Republic of China Air Force. Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ISBN 978-1-4728-0561-4.
- 徐 (Xú), 露梅 (Lùméi). 隕落 (Fallen): 682位空军英烈的生死档案 - 抗战空军英烈档案大解密 (A Decryption of 682 Air Force Heroes of The War of Resistance-WWII and Their Martyrdom). 东城区, 北京， 中国: 团结出版社, 2016. ISBN 978-7-5126-4433-5.
Web
- "Generals from Japan". The Generals of World War II. Retrieved November 23, 2022.
"抗日战争时期的侵华日军序列沿革". Archived from the original on September 29, 2007.