55th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)

History

The 55th Division participated in the invasion of Burma during the Burma Campaign

Burma Campaign

The Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily between British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces against the forces of the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from...

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General Officers 55th Division

1940 - 1941 Lieutenant-General Torazo Ishimoto
1941 - 1942 Lieutenant-General Hiroshi Takeuchi, Thailand-Burma
1942 - 1943 Lieutenant-General Takeshi Koga, Burma
1943 - 1945 Lieutenant-General Tadashi Hanaya, Burma
1945 Lieutenant-General Ryozo Sakuma, Burma-Indochina

Organization

55th Division

55th Infantry Brigade Group
- 112th Infantry Regiment
- 143rd Infantry Regiment
- 144th Infantry Regiment
  144th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army)
  The 144th Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Imperial Japanese Army. The regiment was attached to the 55th Division. The regiment participated during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and during World War II, the regiment fought at in the Pacific at Guam, Rabual, Salamaua, invasion of...
55th Cavalry Regiment
55th Mountain Artillery Regiment
- 3 battalions of 9 X 75mm Mountain guns each
55th Engineer Regiment
55th Transport Regiment

Reference and further reading

Ian Grant and Kazuo Tamayama, Burma 1942, Zampi Press, Chichester, 1999. ISBN 0-9521083-1-3

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