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Military unit
Japanese Twenty-Third Army (1945)
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The
Japanese 23rd Army
(
第23軍
,
Dai-nijyusan gun
)
was an army of the
Imperial Japanese Army
during
World War II
.
History
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The Japanese 23rd Army was established on June 26, 1941, under the command of the
Imperial General Headquarters
. It was transferred to the control of the
China Expeditionary Army
on August 12 of the same year. It was based in
Guangdong
province and on
Hainan
Island to replace the
Southern China Area Army
which was disbanded June 26, 1941.
The Japanese 23rd Army was primarily a
garrison
force to deter the possible landings of
Allied forces
in southern China. It was involved in the
Battle of Guilin-Liuzhou
(part of
Operation Ichi-Go
) from August?November 1944. The Japanese 23rd Army surrendered to the Chinese
Kuomintang
forces on August 15, 1945, with the
surrender of Japan
and was disbanded in
Guangzhou
.
After the war, Imamura, Sakai, and Tanaka were all tried and convicted of war crimes. Sakai and Tanaka were tried in China and executed, while Imamura received a life sentence from an Australian military court. He was released in 1954. Viewing his own sentence as too lenient, Imamura built his own prison in which he imprisoned himself until his death in 1967.
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References
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Books
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- 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.
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