Japanese Twelfth Army (1938)
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Japanese Twelfth Army (1941)
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Japanese Twelfth Army (1945)
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The Japanese 12th Army (第12軍 , Dai-jyūni gun ? was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War .
History [ ] The Japanese 12th Army was formed on November 7, 1938 under the North China Area Army as a garrison force for the occuparion the provinces North China. It served primary as a training and reserve unit, and participate in counter-insurgency operations.
The 15th Army was demobilized at Zhengzhou, Henan Province on the surrender of Japan .
List of Commanders [ ] Commanding officers [ ]
Name
From
To
1
Lieutenant General Kamezo Suetaka
9 November 1938
12 September 1939
2
Lieutenant General Sadataka Iida
12 September 1939
1 March 1941
3
Lieutenant General Ichiji Dobashi
1 March 1941
1 March 1943
4
Lieutenant General Seiichi Kita
1 March 1943
7 February 1944
5
Lieutenant General Eitaro Uchiyama
5 February 1944
7 April 1945
6
Lieutenant General Takashi Takamori
7 April 1945
15 August 1945
Chief of Staff [ ]
Name
From
To
1
Lt. General Asasaburo Kobayashi
9 November 1938
1 December 1939
2
Lt. General Yoshio Hongo
1 December 1939
2 December 1940
3
Lt. General Masafumi Yamauchi
2 December 1940
15 October 1941
4
Major General Etsujiro Kono
15 October 1941
10 December 1942
5
Major General Tadao Teragaki
10 December 1942
16 October 1944
6
Lt. General Makoto Nakayama
16 October 1944
1 September 1945
References [ ] Dorn, Frank (1974). The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-41: From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor . MacMillan.. ISBN 0-02-532200-1 . Madej, Victor (1981). Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945 . Game Publishing Company. ASIN: B000L4CYWW. External links [ ]