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The Fourteenth Area Army (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 on November 6, 1941, for the upcoming invasion of the Philippines .
The 14th Division (第14師団, Dai Jūyon Shidan) was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army. Its tsūshōgō code name was the Shining Division ( 照兵団 , Teru Heidan ) , and its military symbol was 14D.
Masaharu Homma (本間 雅晴, Honma Masaharu, November 27, 1887 – April 3, 1946) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.Homma commanded the Japanese 14th Army, which invaded the Philippines and perpetrated the Bataan Death March.
Instead, General Homma Masaharu commander of 14th Army ordered them south to secure Cebu island in the Visayas intended as launching place for invasion of Mindanao after it is secured. [ 1 ] The island garrison was neutralized after a few days of fighting as they lacked artillery guns, no anti-aircraft guns, no antitank guns, and limited ...
Shown in the center of the figure left, on 22 December 1941, the Japanese 14th Army—under Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma—landed on the northeastern shores of the gulf, at Agoo, Caba, Santiago and Bauang, where they engaged in a number of relatively minor skirmishes [5] with the defenders, a poorly equipped contingent of predominantly ...
Japanese Fourteenth Army, a World War II field army, in 1944 converted to Japanese Fourteenth Area Army 14th Army (Soviet Union) Soviet 14th Guards Army , which occupied Moldovan Transnistria during the Transnistria War
From August to November, Fourteenth Army pursued the Japanese to the Chindwin River despite heavy monsoon rains. While the newly arrived 11th East Africa Division advanced down the Kabaw Valley from Tamu and improved the road behind them, the 5th Indian Division advanced along the mountainous Tiddim road. As Fourteenth Army planned to use only ...
Army High Level Inner Liaison with Army General Staff, IGHQ. Shuichi Miyazaki: Chief, First Bureau, Army General Staff Headquarters, attended operational liaison conference between IGHQ, Southern Army, and Fourteenth Area Army (Manila) Minister of the Navy. Yonai Mitsumasa: Marine Minister; Koshiro Oikawa : Marine minister