15. divize [1937-1945]

15. divize



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velitel skupiny pechoty 01.03.1943-14.02.1944 gen. mjr Sato Tamenori
04.04.1938-01.04.1939 starší adjutant pplk. Shiwa Nobutaka

With počiatkom nepriateľských shares and the outbreak of the second Sino Japanese war is 15. divízia re-built in such a way in Kyoto and is podriadená veleniu centrálnej China. In China the unit provides safety on the okupovynćh územiach.

17.6.1943 divízia gets the order, priradiť sa to radov 15. army in Burme. However, to this dochádza to niekolkých mesiacoch, nakoľko is divízia zdržaná in Thailand, where sa dedicated to construction and komunikácii.

Po príchode to Burma sa divízia participate in operácie U-Go by the side of 31. and 33. divízie. In Imphale divízia lose viac ako polovicu from 15,000 mužov.


Divízia in operácii U-Go

Začiatok operácie U-Go bol planned on začiatok marca 1944. However, from dôvodu oneskorého came 15. divízie, bol začiatok operácie preložený on the 15. marec.

The role of divízie bolo držať stredný section 3 útočiacich divízii and it primárnym cieľom bolo pretnúť communication between Imphalom and Kohima in Kangpokpi. On the map this bola najkratšia and najpriamejšia path through Imphal but in zložitom terrene without normálnych komunikácii. The trip was actually iba vyšľapané sidewalks or vyjazdené kolaje.

Z tohto dôvodu divizionálne mainly buy air units was replaced mountain delami and anti-tank vybavenie bolo left, what vychádzalo founded, that the British in zložitom field nebudú able to nasadiť tanks and an armor cars.

One of the 9 praporov ktorými divízia had been k dispozícii, nakoľko bol from divízie odlúčený and zvádzal fighting with units of the other Chindits operácie and väčšina of 67. the regiment sa still in this time of need nachádzala in Thailand.

15. divízia launches ťaženie with 6 prapormi, 18 delami and in charge to gen. por. Masafumi Yamauchi, trpiaci tuberculosis. After the initiation of the offensive is velenie divízie dôrazne žiadané that quickly progressed.

The british forces in the Sangshak, ktorý sa nachádzal in it operačnej area are pre slow procedure alleged to 23.3. 31. divíziou. Short on sa zapája to the battle 60. the regiment and participate in the sa until the final attack of 27.3.

3.4. finally divízia prerušuje communication of Imphal-Kohima in Kangpokpi. A short time, divízia obsadzuje ridge Nunshigum, over Imphalom. From this pozície Japanese boli capable ohrozovať velenie IV corps and taktiež mali najkratšiu spojnicu to Imphalu.

The british launched a counterattack in the ktorom used ochre rfect person from another aj M3 Lee tanks, what spôsobili a great shock in the Japanese radoch, nakoľko Japanese nepredpokladali chance využitia of iron armor vozidiel in zložitom field. Využitie machines is in this battle rozhodujúce. British month utrpia ťažké straty, but the japanese battalion držiaci ridge is almost completely destroyed.

After this push of Japanese forces, the commander of the divízie Yamauchi decides to continue obkľúčenia Imphalu zo north.

The british commander Geoffrey Scoones, dospieva to the conclusion that 15. divízia is najslabším článkom Japanese queue and nariaďuje Indian 23. divízii pechoty and Indian 5. divízii pechoty break this unit. In následnom period are the Japanese pushed on the retreat from the act pozície on the species. The british are in početnej prevahe and ich, the tanks are almost unstoppable.

In the half to June 1944, the sa is starting from Kohimy sťahovať 31. divízia, after that what will suffer ťažké straty. This retreat he leaves those 60. the regiment, who holds communication between Imphalom and Kohimou in zložitej situácii and up to the time, who 22.6. The british again neobsadia him držanú pozíciu and again neotvoria communication.

In nasledovných dňoch is vo command vystriedaný Yamauchi and strieda him gen por. Ryuichi Shibita. 7.7.1944 divízia gets orders zaútočiť to Palel. However, divízia is natoľko poškodená that sa can't speak in about divízii but iba about formácii, pričom it remains ustupujú to sa save for rieku Chindwin to bezpečia.

Retreat, Mandalay and the end of the war

After porážke Japanese forces in Imphale and procedure spojencov on severus, the Japanese forces in Burme sa pokúšajú stop this thing the allied forces on the rieke Irrawaddy and zabrániť im in prekročení this flow. In januári 1945 15 divízia, ktorej come fresh but nedostatočné forces in jeseni predoślého year (4.500 mužov), along with the 32. divíziou are dedicated to defending the Mandalay.

On the other hand, the Indian 19. divízia pechoty, vytvára my first predmostie on výchiodnej side of the embankment 14.1. and all the attempts on his odstránenie from the Japanese side stroskotávajú. Subsequently urýchlene British commander Thomas Wynford Rees decides your mužom postupovať simmilar. Indian divízia sa gives the nba the procedure prićom destroying every resistance and 7.3.1945 has to dohľad Mandalay.

15. divízia under the command gen. por. Yamamoto, getting an order udržať city in the previous muža. From the first pozícii, Mandalay Hill and Fort Dufferin su the japanese displaced 12.3., pričom Fort Dufferin the nie is able to vydržať delostreleckú paľbu and air bombardovanie. 18.3. is divízii allowed ustúpiť, what then makes eachother 19.3. 1945.

In this time sa zrútili almost all Japanese pozície in Burme. Surviving men 15. divízie, change ako polovica of pôvodného condition, 15.000 mužov recedes over the territory Karenu, where it operates the karen guerilla, through the south states in August, to Thailand, where he finds the end of the war and vzdáva sa spojencom.


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velenie divízie in the final stages of a summon existencie

chief of staff col. Toshiyuki Sasaki, Takashi ? (佐孝俊幸)
main adjutant mjr. Masaomi Kitamura (北村将臣)
the chief of the armament colonel. Higaki, Katsuo ? (檜垣克雄)
main finanzmajster col. Sakata Terukazu (坂田輝一)
main surgeon col. surgeon Kishimoto Harue (岸本春栄)
main veterinary use colonel. Kiyoshi Sakata (坂田清)


zloženie divízie in the final stages of a summon existencie




Velitelia in the final phase


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