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Japanese Army Kokura Arsenal: with Nambu, manufactured small arms and Machine Guns; Japanese Army Tokyo Arsenal: the Army administrative and testing center related with light and heavy weapons production; Japanese Army Tachikawa Arsenal: dedicated to develop and manufacture aircraft for the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service; Japanese Army ...
The Seabees (Navy construction battalions) came to the base in 1950 and prepared it for re-opening that December as Naval Air Station Atsugi. NAF Atsugi was a major naval air base during both the Korean War and Vietnam War, serving fighters, bombers, and transport aircraft. One of the aircraft based at Atsugi at least since 1957 [4] was the U-2 ...
The following is a list of Japanese military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels, and other support equipment of both the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from operations conducted from start of Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the end of World War II in 1945. [1]
The Japanese military before and during World War II committed numerous atrocities against civilian and military personnel. Its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, prior to a declaration of war and without warning killed 2,403 neutral military personnel and civilians and wounded 1,247 others.
The island was the site of the primary long range transmitters used by the IJN and IJA to maintain contact with their far flung forces in World War II. Co-located with a seaplane base. Both are now MSDF facilities.
6th Air Division (Japan) 第6飛行師団: 26 November 1942: 1 August 1944: Ocean (洋, hiroshi) Rabaul-New Guinea: 7th Air Division (Japan) 第7飛行師団: 28 January 1943: 21 July 1945: Raid (襲) New Guinea-Ambon (1944)-Philippines (1944) 8th Air Division (Japan) 第8飛行師団: 10 June 1943: 1945: True (誠, Makoto) 18900: Taipei: 9th ...
7th Air Squadron (Japan) ja:飛行第7戦隊 (日本軍) 1 May 1925: 1945-Hamamatsu (Shizuoka) - Itami (Hyogo) 8th Air Squadron (Japan) ja:飛行第8戦隊 (日本軍) 1 May 1925: 1945-Pingtung City, Taiwan 9th Air Squadron (Japan) ja:飛行第9戦隊 (日本軍) 1 December 1935: 1945-Nining, Korea - Nanjing, Jiangsu province 10th Air Squadron ...
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.