Katayama Detachment
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The Katayama Detachment from the IJA 2nd Division fought small actions near Akiyama heights, or Heights 997 on 6th-10th of September 1939. 2nd Division (and the 4th Division) was attached to Japanese Sixth Army
in the Battle of Khalkhin Gol
as reinforcement for a projected counterattack that was canceled when a cease fire was signed.
Katayama Detachment
Japanese Sixth Army
The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army initially based in Manchukuo as a garrison force under the overall command of the Kwantung Army. At the end of World War II] it was active in east China.-History:...
in the Battle of Khalkhin Gol
Battle of Khalkhin Gol
The Battles of Khalkhyn Gol was the decisive engagement of the undeclared Soviet–Japanese Border Wars fought among the Soviet Union, Mongolia and the Empire of Japan in 1939. The conflict was named after the river Khalkhyn Gol, which passes through the battlefield...
as reinforcement for a projected counterattack that was canceled when a cease fire was signed.
Katayama Detachment
- 15th Infantry Brigade
- 16th Infantry Regiment
- 30th Infantry Regiment
- 1 Field Artillery battalion
Source
- Coox, Alvin D., Nomonhan, Japan Against Russia, 1939. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA: 1985.