Fifty-Fourth Army (Japan)

Fifty-Fourth Army (Japan)

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= Japanese Fifty-Fourth Army


caption=
dates= 1945-06-19 - 1945-08-15 
country= Empire of Japan
allegiance=
branch= Imperial Japanese Army
type= Infantry
role= Corps
garrison=Shinshiro, Aichi
nickname=nihongo|Satsu|颯|Dashing
battles=Operation Downfall
command structure
name= Japanese 54th Army
date=1945
parent=Japanese Thirteenth Area Army
subordinate=
* 143rd Infantry Division (Hamamatsu)
* 224th Infantry Division (Hiroshima)
* 355th Infantry Division ( Himeji)
* 97th Independent Mixed Brigade (Fujieda)
* 119th Independent Mixed Brigade (Shizuoka)
* 120th Independent Mixed Brigade (Shimizu)
* 3rd Artillery Headquarters

The nihongo|Japanese 54th Army|第54軍 |Dai-gojyūyon gun was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II.

History

The Japanese 54th Army was formed on 19 June 1945 under the Japanese 13th Area Army as part of the last desperate defense effort by the Empire of Japan to deter possible landings of Allied forces in central Honshū during Operation Downfall. The Japanese 54th Army was based in Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture and was thus intended to guard the approaches and beachheads to Nagoya and the Chūbu region of Japan. It consisted mostly of poorly-trained reservists, conscripted students and home guard militia. Most of its units were still in training, and had neither weapons nor ammunition at the time of their demobilization at the surrender of Japan on 15 August 1945, without having seen combat.

List of Commanders

References

*cite book
last = Drea
first = Edward J.
authorlink =
coauthors =
year = 1998
chapter = Japanese Preparations for the Defense of the Homeland & Intelligence Forecasting for the Invasion of Japan
title = In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army
publisher = University of Nebraska Press
location =
id = ISBN 0-8032-1708-0

*cite book
last = Frank
first = Richard B
coauthors =
year = 1999
title = Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
publisher = Random House
location = New York
id = ISBN 0-679-41424-X

*cite book
last = Jowett
first = Bernard
coauthors =
year = 1999
title = The Japanese Army 1931-45 (Volume 2, 1942-45)
publisher = Osprey Publishing
location =
id = ISBN 1841763543

*cite book
last = Madej
first = Victor
coauthors =
year = 1981
title = Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945
publisher = Game Publishing Company
location =
id = ASIN: B000L4CYWW

*cite book
last = Marston
first = Daniel
coauthors =
year = 2005
title = The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
publisher = Osprey Publishing
location =
id = ISBN 1841768820

*cite book
last = Skates
first = John Ray
coauthors =
year = 1994
title = The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb Downfall
publisher = University of South Carolina Press
location = New York
id = ISBN 0-87249-972-3

External links

*cite web
last = Wendel
first = Marcus
url = http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=7699
title = Axis History Factbook
work = Japanese Fifty-Fourth Army


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