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In January 1944, Mainline Japanese Army codes were broken with help from a buried trunk found during the Battle of Sio in New Guinea by Australian troops of the 9th Division. The records had been left by retreating Japanese Army troops of the 20th Division.
The Instructions for the Battlefield (Kyūjitai: 戰陣訓; Shinjitai: 戦陣訓, Senjinkun, Japanese pronunciation: [se̞nʑiŋkũ͍ɴ]) was a pocket-sized military code issued to soldiers in the Imperial Japanese forces on 8 January 1941 in the name of then-War Minister Hideki Tojo. [1] It was in use at the outbreak of the Pacific War.
The Japanese military aircraft designation systems for the Imperial period (pre-1945) had multiple designation systems for each armed service. This led to the Allies' use of code names during World War II, and these code names are still better known in English-language texts than the real Japanese names for the aircraft. A number of different ...
Code name First flown Number built Service Kawasaki Ki-56 Army Type 1 Freight Transport & Tachikawa Navy Type LO: Thalia/Thelma 1940 121 IJA: Mitsubishi Ki-57 Army Type 100 Transport: Topsy 1940 406 IJA & IJN: Nakajima Ki-34 Army Type 97 Transport & Nakajima L1N Navy Type AT-2 Transport: Thora 1936 351 IJA & IJN: Showa/Nakajima L2D Navy Type 0 ...
All resistance to US forces ceased 10 August 1944. The island of Tinian was protected by 8039-strong Japanese force, including 50th infantry regiment and a 29th tank company. The Battle of Tinian have started 24 July 1944, and by 30 July the remnants of the Japanese forces were holed up in the caves on the north of the island. Resistance on ...
Central Bureau did not break any high level Japanese Army codes until mid-1943 success with the Water Transport Code. In January 1944, one main line Japanese Army code was broken with help from a buried trunk found at Sio, New Guinea, left by retreating Japanese Army troops of the 20th Division. The Bureau spent a day drying the damp pages, and ...
The 44th Division (第44師団, Dai-yonjūyon Shidan) was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army. Its call sign was the Orange Division (橘兵団, Tachibana Heidan). The 44th Division was organized on 4 April 1944, simultaneously with the 81st and 86th divisions as a defiant action against popular Japanese Tetraphobia superstition.
Adding to the confusion, the US Army and US Navy each had their own different systems for identifying Japanese aircraft. [ 2 ] In mid-1942, Captain Frank T. McCoy, a United States Army Air Forces military intelligence officer from the 38th Bombardment Group assigned to the Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit in Australia, set out to devise a ...