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Twenty-Seventh Army (Japan)

1944-1945 Imperial Japanese Army formation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 6, 2022
Entity authorityQ6134151 ↗
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The Japanese 27th Army (第27軍, Dai-nijyūnana gun) was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II.

History

The Japanese 27th Army was formed on March 16, 1944, as part of the last desperate defense effort by the Empire of Japan to deter possible landings of Allied forces in the northern Chishima Islands territories from northeastern Hokkaidō to Kamchatka during Operation Downfall. It was headquartered on Etorofu.

The Japanese 27th Army consisted mostly of poorly trained reservists, conscripted students and home guard militia. It was disbanded on February 1, 1945, and its units were incorporated directly into the Japanese 5th Area Army

List of Commanders

See also

Organization of Kita and Minami Fortresses

References

Drea, Edward J. (1998). "Japanese Preparations for the Defense of the Homeland & Intelligence Forecasting for the Invasion of Japan". In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-1708-0.

Frank, Richard B (1999). Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire.

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