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Southern Expeditionary Army Group
Japanese: 南方軍 Nanpō gun
Japanese General Count Terauchi Hisaichi, right, commanding officer of the Southern Expeditionary Army Group.
Active
November 6, 1941 – September 2, 1945
Country
Empire of Japan
Allegiance
Emperor of Japan
Branch
Imperial Japanese Army
Type
General Army
Size
1,000,000 personnel
Garrison/HQ
Saigon
Engagements
Pacific War
Military unit
Southern Army Group
Parent unit
Imperial General Headquarters
Components
[South Seas Western Command]
14th Infantry Division
IJA 49th Independent Mixed Brigade
IJA 53rd Independent Mixed Brigade
[Burma]
Burma Area Army
Japanese Twenty-Eighth Army
54th Infantry Division
Japanese Thirty-Third Army
18th Infantry Division
31st Infantry Division
33rd Infantry Division
49th Infantry Division
53rd Infantry Division
IJA 24th Independent Mixed Brigade
IJA 72nd Independent Mixed Brigade
IJA 105th Independent Mixed Brigade
IJA 53rd Independent Mixed Brigade
[Malaya, Singapore, Sumatra]
Japanese Seventh Area Army
Japanese Sixteenth Army
48th Infantry Division
IJA 27th Independent Mixed Brigade
IJA 28th Independent Mixed Brigade
Japanese Twenty-Fifth Army
2nd Guards Brigade
IJA 25th Independent Mixed Brigade
Japanese Twenty-Ninth Army
94th Infantry Division
IJA 35th Independent Mixed Brigade
IJA 36th Independent Mixed Brigade
IJA 37th Independent Mixed Brigade
IJA 70th Independent Mixed Brigade
46th Infantry Division
IJA 26th Independent Mixed Brigade
Japanese Third Air Army
[Philippines]
Japanese Fourteenth Area Army
Japanese Thirty-Fifth Army
16th Infantry Division
30th Infantry Division
100th Infantry Division
102nd Infantry Division
IJA 54th Independent Mixed Brigade
Japanese Forty-First Army
8th Infantry Division
1st Infantry Division
10th Infantry Division
19th Infantry Division
23rd Infantry Division
26th Infantry Division
103rd Infantry Division
105th Infantry Division
2nd Tank Division
4th Air Division
IJA 55th Independent Mixed Brigade
IJA 58th Independent Mixed Brigade
IJA 68th Infantry Brigade
[Thailand]
Japanese Eighteenth Area Army
Japanese Fifteenth Army
4th Infantry Division
56th Infantry Division
15th Infantry Division
22nd Infantry Division
Japanese Eighteenth Army
[New Guinea, Solomon Islands]
Japanese Eighteenth Army
20th Infantry Division
41st Infantry Division
51st Infantry Division
[Borneo]
Japanese Thirty-Seventh Army
56th Independent Mixed Brigade
IJA 71st Independent Mixed Brigade
[Dutch East Indies]
Japanese Second Army
5th Infantry Division
21st Infantry Division
32nd Infantry Division
35th Infantry Division
36th Infantry Division
IJA 57th Independent Mixed Brigade
IJA 128th Independent Mixed Brigade
[French Indochina]
Japanese Thirty-Eighth Army
2nd Infantry Division
21st Infantry Division
37th Infantry Division
55th Infantry Division
IJA 34th Independent Mixed Brigade
Army unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
The Southern Expeditionary Army Group (南方軍, Nanpō gun) was a general army of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. It was responsible for all military operations in South East Asian and South West Pacific campaigns of World War II.[1] Its military symbol was NA.[2]
The Southern Expeditionary Army Group was formed on November 6, 1941, under the command of Gensui Count Terauchi Hisaichi, with orders to attack and occupy Allied territories and colonies in South East Asia and the South Pacific.
^Jowett, The Japanese Army 1931–45
^Japanese Wikipedia article of Southern Expeditionary Army Group
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