154th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)

June 2021 November 2019 154th Division 第154師団 1945–1945 Empire of Japan Empire of Japan 57th army Imperial Japanese Army Infantry 10000 Miyazaki Prefecture Himeji protection division none 154th Division 15 August 1945 57th army *445. Infantry regiment (Tottori) 446. Infantry regiment (Tottori) 447. Infantry regiment (Okayama) 448. Infantry regiment (Okayama) 154. Automatic cannon company 154. Artillery company 154. Transport company 154. Signals company 154. Ordnance company 154. Field hospital The 154th Division 第154師団 Dai-hyakugojūyon Shidan was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army. Its call sign was the Himeji Protection Division 護路兵団 Goji Heidan. It was formed on 28 February 1945, in Hiroshima as a square division. It was a part of the 16 simultaneously created divisions batch numbering from 140th to 160th. Action The 154th division was assigned to 57th army.Japanese Home Island Armies 8 April 1945 http://www.cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/945PDEG.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20160813061611/http://www.cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/945PDEG.pdf 2016-08-13 2025-06-03 www.cgsc.edu The division spent time from 5 May 1945 until surrender of Japan 15 August 1945 building a coastal defenses in Saito, Miyazakihttp://www.ac.auone-net.jp/~tigre/gwife2670/butai/445_453.htm 歩兵第445/446/447/448連隊/154D 2016-07-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20160817235556/http://www.ac.auone-net.jp/~tigre/gwife2670/butai/445_453.htm 2016-08-17 dead without engaging in actual combat. See also List of Japanese Infantry Divisions Notes and references This article incorporates material from Japanese Wikipedia page 第154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