Solomon Islands campaign New Guinea campaign Proposed invasion of Australia
Military unit
Japanese Eighth Area Army (1945)
Parent unit
Imperial General Headquarters
Components
Japanese 17th Army
Japanese 18th Army
38th division
IJA 39th Independent Mixed Brigade
IJA 40th Independent Mixed Brigade
IJA 65th Independent Infantry Brigade
IJA 9th Artillery Headquarters
The Eighth Area Army (第8方面軍, Dai-hachi hōmen gun) was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The army was formed on 9 November 1942, becoming effective on 26 November at Rabaul as part of the Southern Army. The army was disbanded in September 1945.
The EighthAreaArmy (第8方面軍, Dai-hachi hōmen gun) was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The army was formed on 9 November...
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The Eighth Route Army (simplified Chinese: 八路军; traditional Chinese: 八路軍; pinyin: Bālù-Jūn), officially known as the 18th Group Army of the National Revolutionary...
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command of the new EighthAreaArmy, responsible for the Seventeenth Army in the Solomon Islands campaign and the Eighteenth Army in the New Guinea campaign...
The Fifth AreaArmy (第5方面軍, Dai-go hōmen gun) was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the closing stages of World War II. It saw combat against...
Command was redesignated as Eighth Air Force on 22 February 1944. the EighthArmy Air Force (8 AAF) was a United States Army Air Forces combat air force...
bombing raids on Rabaul as well as action off Bougainville. The Japanese EighthAreaArmy, under General Hitoshi Imamura at Rabaul, was responsible for both...
Eighth, and Ninth Corps Areas also organized units to man various fixed coastal defenses. The corps areas were further grouped into three armyareas of...
March 1944 the Imperial General Headquarters directed the EighthAreaArmy to "hold the area around Rabaul for as long as possible" to divert Allied forces...
Imamura, the commander of the Japanese EighthAreaArmy at Rabaul, ordered Lieutenant General Hatazō Adachi's XVIII Army to secure Madang, Wewak and Tuluvu...
Redesignation and Assignment of EighthArmy as a Subordinate Command of The United States Army Pacific" (PDF). Department of the Army. Archived from the original...
command of the newly formed EighthAreaArmy at Rabaul. The new command encompassed both Hyakutake's 17th Army and the 18th Army in New Guinea. One of Imamura's...
Fourteenth AreaArmy (第14方面軍, Dai-jyūyon hōmen gun) was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II. It was originally the 14th Army, formed...
The EighthArmy Ranger Company, also known as the 8213th Army Unit, was a Ranger light infantry company of the United States Army that was active during...
Hyukatake reported to General Hitoshi Imamura, commander of the Japanese EighthAreaArmy, headquartered at Rabaul on New Britain. Naval command at Rabaul was...
command of the new EighthAreaArmy at Rabaul. The command encompassed both Hyakutake's 17th Army in the Solomons and the 18th Army in New Guinea. One...
After the Japanese EighthAreaArmy under General Hitoshi Imamura took over operations in the theater, Hyakutake directed Japanese army units solely in the...
Ocean Areas. Throughout its history the command was designated: US Army Forces, Central Pacific Area (1943–44) US Army Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas (1944–69)...
the commander of the Berlin Defensive Area, and the rest of the Berlin garrison. Later the Eighth Guards Army became part of the Group of Soviet Forces...
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