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How to distinguish the ranks of Japanese troops in World War II?
Supreme commander

General officers: general, lieutenant general and major general;

Assistant officials: Dazuo, Zhongzuo, Shaozuo;

Junior officers: captain, lieutenant and second lieutenant;

Special agent Cao Chang

naval noncommissioned officer

Junior noncommissioned officers: Cao Chang, Cao Chang and Wu Chang;

Soldier: First class, first class, second class.

Extended data:

Army commanders-generals or lieutenant generals (a few generals); Division head-lieutenant general or major general (less major general); The head of the brigade-Major General; Joint captain-colonel; etc

Japanese military institutions:

1, team

The infantry squad has a machine gun group (two light machine guns), a grenade launcher group (two grenade launchers) and two rifle groups. Each light machine gun is equipped with four people (commander, shooter and two assistant shooters with ammunition), and each Grenade launcher is equipped with two people. The number of teams is between 50 and 70. By 1945, only a light machine gun and a Grenade launcher were left in the infantry class.

Infantry gun squad, two 70mm infantry guns.

2. Cavalry squadron

The infantry squadron has three infantry classes, with a number of 194 to 250 people. A standard Japanese infantry squadron with 180 personnel includes: a squadron with 19 personnel: squadron leader, executive officer, 3 non-commissioned officers, 4 medics, officer orderly, trumpeter and 8 communicators), and the above-mentioned three squads with 54 personnel.

3. brigade

Similar to the establishment of our legion.

A standard 1 100 brigade of the Japanese army includes a brigade headquarters with 30 people and a transport squadron with 1 10 people (carts and mules and horses). Some brigades have merged their transport squadrons into the United front. The four infantry squadrons mentioned above (some only have three); A machine gun squadron of 174 people (squadron headquarters 14 people, 3 machine gun squadrons, 1 ammunition squadrons), with 4 heavy machine guns in each row, totaling 12 (some squadrons only have 8);

A 55-man artillery squad (1 10-man artillery squad, 15-man ammunition squad, two15-man artillery squads each equipped with 1 70mm 92 infantry guns), and very few troops are equipped with/kloc-0. Fortunately, among these small artillery squadrons, some units that can be equipped with 20MM anti-tank guns can be organized into 4 teams with 24 people and equipped with 2 anti-tank guns. In this case, the ammunition team will be expanded to 39 people.

4. consistent

A standard 3,800-man wing of the Japanese Army includes a 54-man headquarters; A 12 1 person transport team (carts and mules and horses) carrying the joint headquarters and

One-day supplies for the squadron directly under it and a field kitchen that may be equipped with chefs; 8 1 person ammunition squad, carrying ammunition for one day. Three infantry brigades; An artillery squadron 122 personnel, including a squadron headquarters with 25 personnel, 1 observation class, an ammunition class with 3 1 personnel, and three artillery classes with 3 1 personnel (each with two artillery classes 15 personnel and equipment1) Several wings have an artillery brigade of 364 people and two squadrons of 170 people, each with four guns.

Joint anti-tank squadron 122 personnel: 20 personnel from the squadron headquarters, 2/KLOC-0 personnel from the ammunition squad and 33 personnel from three artillery squadrons (each equipped with two 37mm anti-tank guns). The communication squadron has a telephone class (4-6 telephone classes, each class has 3 telephones and a switch) and a radio class (5-8 radio stations). During the battle, telephones and radio stations were assigned to each brigade and each directly affiliated team. The sanitary system of the wing is very weak. There are only two doctors and two medics in the wing, three doctors and four medics in the brigade and four medics in the squadron.

5. brigade

A division is generally composed of two infantry brigades, and each infantry brigade has two infantry wings.

6. Division

It is similar to the establishment of our army group army, about 25-30 thousand people.

Japanese divisions mainly include: 3 infantry wings, 1 field artillery wing, 1 reconnaissance wing, 1 engineer wing, 1 transport wing and 1 communication team. There are 2,322 field artillery regiments and 688 artillery brigades under its jurisdiction, each equipped with 12 75mm field artillery or mountain artillery. Only some divisions replaced one of the brigades with105mm guns. There are 730 reconnaissance wings, including one wing headquarters 130, one cavalry squadron 130 (30 in four platoons), two motorized squadrons 160, 1 truck transport squadron 100.

This reconnaissance wing can also be replaced by a 950-man cavalry wing. The engineering wing has a staff of 900- 1000, with almost no mechanical equipment and can only undertake few tasks. More professional tasks are mainly undertaken by the affiliated independent engineering wing. The size of the transport wing usually depends on the number of available trucks. Theoretically, it consists of a truck brigade and a caravan of mules and horses.

The truck brigade consists of two or three squadrons, each with a maximum of 50 trucks and a load of 1.5 tons. Many divisions lack trucks, and some don't have them at all. On the whole, a Japanese division has 54 75mm field guns or mountain guns, and a few divisions have replaced the 75mm guns with12105mm guns. As for trucks, the Japanese army has at most 100- 150 trucks. The infantry division belongs to the cavalry regiment: it has two cavalry squadrons, each equipped with a 128 horse rifle.

7. cavalry wing

There are 4 cavalry squadrons, each with 1 19 horse rifles, 2 light machine guns, 1 heavy machine gun squadrons, 2 subordinate squadrons and 4 heavy machine guns. In addition, I attach 1945 the establishment of the 4th Brigade of Japanese cavalry: brigade department, 15, 80 guard squadrons, 30 communication classes and 20 confidential personnel, totaling 145.

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