114th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)

November 2019 114th Division 1937 - 1945 Empire of Japan Empire of Japan Imperial Japanese Army Infantry Utsunomiya Saburou Miura Commander Division Battle of ShanghaiBattle of NankingBattle of XuzhouBattle of Northern and Eastern HenanChinese Civil War 114th Division 1937 * 127th Infantry Brigade 66th Infantry Regiment 115th Infantry Regiment 128th Infantry Brigade 102nd Infantry Regiment 150th Infantry Regiment 120th Field Artillery Regiment 118th Cavalry Regiment 114th Engineer Regiment 114th Transport Regiment 114th Division 1945 * 83rd Infantry Brigade 199th Independent Infantry Battalion 200th Independent Infantry Battalion 201st Independent Infantry Battalion 202nd Independent Infantry Battalion 84th Infantry Brigade 381st Independent Infantry Battalion 382nd Independent Infantry Battalion 383rd Independent Infantry Battalion 384th Independent Infantry Battalion Labor troops Signal Communication Unit Field hospital The 114th Division 第114師団 Dai-hyakujūyon Shidan was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army. Its call sign was Commander Division 将兵団 Shou Heidan. It was formed on 12 October 1937 in Utsunomiya, Tochigi as a B-class square division. The nucleus for the formation was the 14th Division headquarters. It was originally subordinated to the Central China Area Army. First formation In October 1937 the division was subordinated to the Tenth Army and sent to ongoing Battle of Shanghai.http://www.cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/937JKAA.PDF Japanese 10th Army Shanghai Operations 20 October 1937 2016-06-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20111208053108/http://www.cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/937JKAA.PDF 2011-12-08 dead It departed from Osaka 30 October and arrived in Hangzhou Bay on 5 November 1937, spending the next five days unloading, due to faulty landing craft.YAMATO MARU: Tabular Record of Movement It also participated in Battle of Nanking in December 1937. In February 1938, the division was transferred to the North China Area Army and participated in the Battle of Xuzhou and Battle of Northern and Eastern Henan. Later performing a garrison duties in the North China, the division was demobilized in July 1939. From the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War until its return to Japan in September 1939, the 114th Division suffered 906 killed, 198 dead from illnesses, and 2,527 wounded.第１４師団　上奏の件 https://www.jacar.archives.go.jp/aj/meta/listPhoto?LANG=default&BID=F2007110515364177704&ID=M2007110515365077811&REFCODE=C07091277000 Japan Center for Asian Historical Records 2026-03-0714 Second formation Because the 26th and 62nd divisions were sent to Pacific War, the 114th was reformed 10 July 1944 in Linfen, simultaneously with the 115th, 117th and 118th divisions. As a security (class C) division, its backbone consisted of independent infantry battalions, and division lacked an artillery regiment. The nucleus for the formation was the 3rd Independent Infantry Brigade in Yuncheng and 69th division in North China. The unit was originally assigned to the First Army. It then garrisoned the Linfen area of Shanxi along the Tongpu Railroad, taking over all of the 69th Division garrisoned territory. By the start of Soviet invasion of Manchuria 9 August 1945, the 114th division was on move in Tianjin. After World War II ended with the surrender of Japan 15 August 1945, a significant fraction of its men have continued to fight under command of the warlord Yan Xishan in the ongoing Chinese Civil War.January 2018 See also List of Japanese Infantry Divisions Notes This article incorporates material from Japanese Wikipedia page 第114師団 (日本軍), accessed 15 June 2016 References 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 1937 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1939 Category:Military units and formations established in 1944 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1945 Category:1937 establishments in Japan Category:1939 disestablishments in Japan Category:1944 establishments in Japan Category:1945 disestablishments in Japan Category:Perpetrators of the Nanjing Massacre