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'Greater Japan Empire Army Air Corps') was the aviation force of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). Its primary mission was to provide tactical close air support for ground forces, as well as a limited air interdiction capability.
ja:飛行第1戦隊 (日本軍) 1 June 1925. 1945. -. Kakamigahara (Gifu Prefecture) - Manchuria - China - Burma - Netherlands East Indies - Indochina - Rabaul - Solomon Islands - New Guinea - Philippines - Formosa - Takahagi, Kanto district. 2nd Air Squadron (Japan) ja:飛行第2戦隊 (日本軍) 1 May 1925. 15 July 1945.
The Imperial Japanese Army [a] (IJA) was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan.Forming one of the military branches of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces (IJAF), it was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office and the Army Ministry, both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emperor of Japan, the supreme commander of IJAF.
The Imperial Japanese Armed Forces (IJAF) were the unified forces of the Empire of Japan.Formed during the Meiji Restoration in 1868, [1] they were disbanded in 1945, shortly after Japan's defeat to the Allies of World War II; the revised Constitution of Japan, drafted during the Allied occupation of Japan, replaced the IJAF with the present-day Japan Self-Defense Forces.
The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (大日本帝國海軍航空隊, Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun Kōkū-tai) (IJNAS) was the air arm of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). The organization was responsible for the operation of naval aircraft and the conduct of aerial warfare in the Pacific War. The Japanese military acquired their first aircraft ...
The prefix "Ki" in this list is an abbreviation of "Kitai", meaning "airframe", and was used only by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force. "Ki" should be read as one word. For clarification on other designations, particularly those used by the Navy, see Japanese military aircraft designation systems.
1st Air Division (Japan) 第1飛行師団. 10 June 1938. 1945. Tip (鏑, Kabura) 1045. Kakamigahara - Sapporo - Obihiro, was dissolved in 1942 and re-formed in 1943. 2nd Air Division (Japan) 第2飛行師団. 24 July 1937.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, the basic structure of the Imperial Japanese Army was as follows: Imperial Army (~230,000–250,000 men) – Commanded by Marshal HIH Prince Kan-in-Kotohito. General Army (総軍 Sō-gun equivalent to the Army Group or Front) – Commanded by a Marshal or General. Area Army (方面軍 Hōmen-gun 1942 ...