123rd Division (Imperial Japanese Army)

November 2019 123rd Division 第123師団 1945–1945 Empire of Japan Empire of Japan 4th army Imperial Japanese Army Infantry Sunwu County Matsukaze division Soviet invasion of Manchuria 123rd Division 1945 4th Army 268th Infantry Regiment (Nagoya) 269th Infantry Regiment (Tsu) 27th Infantry Regiment (Gifu) 123rd Field Artillery Regiment 123rd Engineer Regiment 123rd Transport Regiment 123rd Airborne Battalion 123rd Signal Company The 123rd Division 第123師団 Dai-hyakunijūsan Shidan was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army. Its call sign was the Matsukaze Division 松風兵団 Matsukaze Heidan. It was formed on 16 January 1945 in Sunwu County, in what was the Manchukuo, as a triangular division. It was part a batch of eight simultaneously created divisions: the 121st, 122nd, 123rd, 124th, 125th, 126th, 127th and 128th Divisions. The nucleus of the formation was the 73rd Independent Mixed Brigade, which was formed in October 1944 from the headquarters of the 1st Division. History On 30 March 1945 the 123rd Division's formation was complete and it was assigned to the 4th Army.123rd Division [sic] (Matsukaze) It was tasked with the garrison of Sunwu County, adjacent to the 135th Independent Mixed Brigade in Aihui District. The division fought and withstood the Soviet invasion of Manchuria with heavy casualties, but did not yield until the surrender of Japan on 15 August 1945. The majority of division personnel were taken prisoner to the Soviet Union in September 1945. See also List of Japanese Infantry Divisions Independent Mixed Brigades (Imperial Japanese Army) Notes and references This article incorporates material from Japanese Wikipedia page 第123師団 (日本軍), accessed 28 June 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