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1st Battalion (Including Sasebo 1st SNLF) 2nd Battalion (Former Kure 1st SNLF) 3rd Battalion (Former Sasebo 2nd SNLF) 4th Battalion (Former Sasebo 3rd SNLF) 5th Battalion (Former Yokosuka 1st SNLF) 7th Battalion (Former Yokosuka 2nd SNLF) Armed reservists (est. 2,800-2,900 men) [b] and Ronin (est. 100-200 men) [c] Total Naval forces in Shanghai ...
The 1st Battalion had 32 VCL Amphibious Tanks and some 6-ton Vickers Mark E tanks. The 2nd Battalion also in Shanghai had 20 Vickers Mark E tanks, 4 VCL Tanks and Carden Loyd tankettes. The 3rd Battalion had 10 Panzer I light tanks, 20 CV35 tankettes, and some Leichter Panzerspähwagen armored cars. Almost all of these were lost during the ...
1st (Destroyer) Sentai - Rear Admiral Yoshida Sendai; Shanghai Special Naval Landing Force - Rear Admiral Denshichi Okawachi; 1st Battalion - Lt. Cdr. Uroku Hashimoto; 2nd Battalion - Lt. Shigeshi Sano; 3rd Battalion - Lt. Shegeru Ito; 4th Battalion - Artillery unit, Disbanded at the outbreak of war, guns were dispersed to the infantry units.
The Shanghai Defence Force was a tri-service military formation established by the British Government to protect ... 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment; 1st Battalion ...
In 1937, though still not completely trained and fully equipped with German weapons, the 88th Division under the command of Sun Yuanliang was rushed to the Second Battle of Shanghai alongside the other German-trained divisions. The elite, German-trained division performed admirably, pushing the Japanese marines back to the very shores of ...
During the assault on Sihang Warehouse the exact number of participating troops is unclear, however the Shanghai SNLF 10th Battalion numbering over 500 men at the time of its formation was reinforced with approximately 250 sailors of the Yokosuka 2nd Independent SNLF Company and over 200 sailors from the Kure 1st SNLF.
The 1st, 4th, and 3rd Raider Battalions became respectively the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions, 4th Marines. The 2nd Raider Battalion became the regimental weapons company. 4th Marines, combined with the 22nd Marine and the 29th Marine Regiment, was assigned to the 6th Marine Division and fought at Guam and Okinawa.
On October 8, 1949, the Tank Division, 3rd Field Army (Chinese: 三野战车师) was formed in Shanghai from the 1st Tank Regiment, Special Troops Column, PLA 3rd Field Army. The division had three regiments; a tank regiment comprising three battalions, an amphibious tank regiment comprising three battalions; and an armored regiment comprising ...