56th Division information

56th Division may refer to: Infantry divisions: 56th Infantry Division (France), a unit of the French Army in both World Wars 56th Infantry Division (German...

The 56th Rifle Division (Russian: 56-я стрелковая дивизия) was an infantry division of the Red Army and later the Soviet Army of the Soviet Union, formed...

McCreery British V Corps – Lieutenant-General Charles Keightley 56th (London) Infantry Division – Major-General John Y. Whitfield 24th Guards Brigade 167th...

56th Division began to reform in April 1920 as part of the reorganised Territorial Army (TA). The signals company became 56th (1st London) Divisional...

of 78 unarmed Dutch civilians and prisoners of war by the Japanese 56th Division near the seaport city of Balikpapan on 24 February 1942. On 20 January...

CAPE ARAXOS and that a similar reinforcement should be made for the 56th Division at KALAMATA. The letter went on to identify Sicily and the Dodecanese...

formed in 1908 and during World War II it provided the divisional signals for the 56th (London) Division and its duplicates as well as communications for the...

Marino, a few miles distant. The 56th (London) Infantry Division was opposite Croce, with the 46th Infantry Division opposite the heavily defended position...

as the commander of the newly formed IJA 56th Division from August 1940. Although initially the 56th division was slated as reinforcements for the Japanese...

200th Division held up the Japanese for a time around Toungoo, but after its fall the road was open for motorised troops of the Japanese 56th Division to...

Japanese reinforced their two divisions in Burma with the 18th Division transferred from Malaya and the 56th Division transferred from the Dutch East...

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Festing's 36th Division from 15 July at Myitkyina airfield. On hearing of the weakening Japanese garrison in Myitkyina, Stillwell sent that division not to take...

German divisions on the Somme and in late August, German artillery preparation began for an attack on 31 August. The 4th Bavarian and 56th divisions were...

Naval) Division came forward from a welcome rest at St. Pol, in relief of the 168th Brigade, 56th Division, west of Bois d'Audregnies. The 56th Division was...

An Imperial Japanese Army division, the 56th Division, was codenamed the Dragon Division. Coincidentally, the Dragon Division was annihilated in the Chinese...