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Japanese Seventh Area Army (1945)
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The Japanese Seventh Area Army (第7方面軍, Dai nana hōmen gun?) was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during final stages of the Pacific War.[1]
The Japanese 7th Area Army was formed on March 19, 1944 under the Southern Expeditionary Army Group for the specific task of opposing landings by Allied forces in Japanese-occupied Malaya, Singapore and Borneo, Java, Sumatra and to consolidate a new defense line after the loss of the Solomon Islands, New Guinea and eastern portions of the Netherlands East Indies.[2] It had its headquarters at Singapore, and was demobilized there on the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II.[3]
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[edit] Chief of Staff
[edit] References
- Madej, Victor (1981). Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945. Game Publishing Company. ASIN: B000L4CYWW.
- Marston, Daniel (2005). The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1841768820.
- Nalty, Bernard (1999). War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay : The Story of the Bitter Struggle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0806131993.
[edit] External links
- ^ Marston, The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
- ^ Nalty, War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
- ^ Madej, Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945
