Thirtieth Army (Japan)

Thirtieth Army (Japan)

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= Japanese Thirtieth Army


caption=
dates= 1945-07-30 - 1945-08-15　
country= Empire of Japan
allegiance=
branch= Imperial Japanese Army
type= Infantry
role= Corps
garrison=Hsinking, Manchukuo
nickname= nihongo|Hashi|敏|rapid
battles=Operation August Stormcommand structure
name= Japanese 30th Army
date=1945
parent=Japanese Third Area Army
subordinate=

* 39th Infantry Division
* 125th Infantry Division
* 138th Infantry Division
* 148th Infantry Division
*2nd Engineering Brigade

The nihongo|Japanese 30th Army|第30軍 |Dai-sanjyū gun was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II.

History

The Japanese 30th Army was initially raised on 30 July 1945 in the Manchukuo capital of Hsinking. As the war situation on the Pacific front grew increasingly desperate for Japan, the Imperial Japanese Army transferred more and more experienced divisions out of Manchukuo to other fronts. By early 1945, the vaunted Kwantung Army was largely hollowed out, and indications of a buildup of Soviet Red Army forces on the borders on Mengjiang and Manchukuo were alarming. The Japanese 30th Army was assigned to the Japanese Third Area Army, and based in southern Manchukuo, but it was raised only days before the invasion of the Soviet Army in Operation August Storm, and its force of under armed and untrained raw recruits, reservists and civilian militia were no match for the experienced battle-hardened Soviet armored divisions. After a brief struggle at Hsinking (during which time the remnants of the Manchukuo Imperial Guard also defected to the Soviet side, the Japanese 30th Army surrendered.

List of Commanders

References

*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 = Glantz
first = David
authorlink =
coauthors =
year = 2003
chapter =
title = The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945 (Cass Series on Soviet (Russian) Military Experience, 7)
publisher = Routledge
location =
id = ISBN 0-7146-5279-2

External links

*cite web
last = Wendel
first = Marcus
url = http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=7681
title = Axis History Factbook
work = Japanese 30th Army


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