Thirty-Fifth Army (Japan)

Thirty-Fifth Army (Japan)

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= Japanese Thirty-third Army


caption=
dates= 1944-07-26 - 1945-04-14　
country= Empire of Japan
allegiance=
branch= Imperial Japanese Army
type= Infantry
role= Corps
garrison=
nickname= nihongo|Sho|尚| Lasting
battles=command structure
name= Japanese 35th Army
date=1945
parent=Japanese Fourteenth Area Army
subordinate=

* 1st Infantry Division
* 16th Infantry Division
* 26th Infantry Division
* 30th Infantry Division
* 100th Infantry Division
* 102nd Infantry Division
* 54th Independent Mixed Brigade
* 55th Independent Mixed Brigade

The nihongo|Japanese 35th Army|第35軍 |Dai-sanjyūgo gun was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II.

History

The Japanese 35th Army was raised on 26 July 1944 in the Japanese-occupied Philippines in anticipation of Allied attempts to invade and retake Mindanao and the Visayan islands in central and southern Philippines. It was under the overall command of the Japanese Fourteenth Area Army. Initially intended as a garrison force intended to withstand a long-term war of attrition, as the war situation on the Pacific front grew increasingly desperate for Japan, the Imperial General Headquarters ordered the bulk of the IJA 35th Army to Leyte as reinforcement to Japanese forces in the Battle of Leyte. As the battle was lost, surviving units were given independent command authority, and were ordered to go to ground and wage a guerilla campaign by supported with the Philippine Commonwealth troops on their respective islands for as long as possible. The IJA 35th Army was officially disbanded on 19 April 1945. Some individual Japanese stragglers did not give up until the 1970s.

List of Commanders

Commanding Officer

Chief of Staff

References

*cite book
last = Drea
first = Edward J.
authorlink =
coauthors =
year = 1998
chapter = Leyte: Unanswered Questions
title = In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army
publisher = University of Nebraska Press
location = Nebraska
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

External links

*cite web
last = Wendel
first = Marcus
url = http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=7684
title = Axis History Factbook
work = Japanese 33rd Army


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