23rd Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army)

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23rd Infantry Regiment
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Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang: Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, seizing the Shāshì city, 8 June 1940. The battalion was a part of the "Ikeda Detachment", which went westward along with the IJA 13th Division.
Country Japanese Empire
Branch Army
Type Regiment
Role Infantry
Engagements Second Sino-Japanese War

The 23rd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Imperial Japanese Army. The regiment was attached to the 6th Infantry Brigade of the 6th Division and participated during the Second Sino-Japanese War. [1] The regiment fought in the later stages of World War II, assigned to the Japanese Seventeenth Army at Bougainville Island in the Solomon Islands.

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Notes

  1. "6 Division (Japan)". Axis History Factbook. Retrieved 9 April 2012.


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