152nd Division (Imperial Japanese Army)

Infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army November 2019 152nd Division 第152師団 1945–1945 Empire of Japan Empire of Japan 52nd army Imperial Japanese Army Infantry 10000 Chōshi Kanazawa protection division none 152nd Division 15 August 1945 52nd army *437. Infantry regiment (Toyama) 438. Infantry regiment (Kanazawa) 439. Infantry regiment (Kanazawa) 440. Infantry regiment (Toyama) 152. Automatic cannon company 152. Artillery company 152. Transport company 152. Signals company 152. Ordnance company 152. Field hospital The 152nd Division 第152師団 Dai-hyakugojūni Shidan was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army. Its call sign was the Kanazawa Protection Division 護沢兵団 Gozawa Heidan. It was formed 28 February 1945 in Kanazawa as a square division. It was a part of the 16 simultaneously created divisions batch numbering from 140th to 160th. Action The 152nd division was initially assigned to 11th area army.Japanese Home Island Armies 8 April 1945 In April 1945 it was reassigned to 52nd army and sent from Kanazawa to Chōshi in Kantō region, where it performed a coastal defense duties until surrender of Japan 15 August 1945 without seeing an actual combat. The 437th infantry regiment was garrisoning Chōshi, the 440th - west Chōshi, 438th - Asahi, Chiba (building defenses on south-western bank of Tone River), and 439th infantry regiment - Omigawa, Chiba.http://www.ac.auone-net.jp/~tigre/gwife2670/butai/425.437.322.htm 歩兵第437/438/439/440連隊/152D 2016-07-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20160818083722/http://www.ac.auone-net.jp/~tigre/gwife2670/butai/425.437.322.htm 2016-08-18 dead See also List of Japanese Infantry Divisions Notes and references This article incorporates material from Japanese Wikipedia page 第152師団 (日本軍), accessed 13 July 2016 Madej, W. Victor, Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937–1945 [2 vols], Allentown, PA: 1981. Category:Japanese World War II divisions Category:Infantry divisions of Japan Category:Military units and formations established in 1945 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1945 Category:1945 establishments in Japan Category:1945 disestablishments in Japan