Seventeenth Army (Japan)

Seventeenth Army (Japan)

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= Japanese Seventeenth Army


caption= General Kanda signs surrender
dates= 1942-05-18 - 1945-08-15
country= Empire of Japan
allegiance=
branch= Imperial Japanese Army
type= Infantry
role= Corps
garrison=Rabaul
nickname=　nihongo|Oki|沖|Offshore
battles=Solomon Islands campaigncommand structure
name= Japanese Seventeenth Army
date=1945
parent= Japanese Eighth Area Army
subordinate=

* 6th Infantry Division
* IJA 38th Independent Infantry BrigadeThe nihongo|Japanese 17th Army|第17軍 |Dai-jyūnana gun was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

History

The Japanese 17th Army was formed on 18 May 1942 under the Japanese Eighth Area Army of the Southern Expeditionary Army Group for the specific task of opposing landings by Allied forces in Japanese-occupied Solomon Islands. It was initially headquartered on Rabaul and participated in the New Guinea, Guadalcanal, and Solomon Islands campaigns of the South West Pacific theatre of World War II. . [Smith, "Bloody Ridge", p. 25.]

After General Hitoshi Imamura took over command of the Japanese Eighth Area Army the 17th Army was responsible solely for the Solomons, primarily on Bougainville. [Hayashi, "Kogun", p. 224-225.] It was trapped on Bougainville and cut off from reinforcements and re-supply during the Bougainville campaign (1943-45), and was forced to live off the land, hiding in jungle caves for most of the rest of the war. [Gailey, "Bougainville".]

List of Commanders

Commanding officer


=Chief of Staff=

References

*cite book
last = Frank
first = Richard
authorlink = Richard B. Frank
year = 1990
title = Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle
publisher = Random House
location = New York
id = ISBN 0-394-58875-4
*cite book
last = Gailey
first = Harry A.
authorlink =
year = 1991
title = Bougainville, 1943-1945: The Forgotten Campaign
publisher = University Press of Kentucky
location = Lexington, Kentucky, USA
id = ISBN 0-8131-9047-9
*cite book
last = Hayashi
first = Saburo
authorlink =
coauthors =
year = 1959
title = Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War
publisher = Marine Corps. Association
location =
id = ASIN B000ID3YRK
*cite book
last = Smith
first = Michael T.
authorlink =
coauthors =
year = 2000
title = Bloody Ridge: The Battle That Saved Guadalcanal
publisher = Pocket
location = New York
id = ISBN 0-7434-6321-8

External links

*cite web
last = Wendel
first = Marcus
url = http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=6928
title = Axis History Factbook
work = Japanese Seventeenth Army

Notes


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