Sixth Army (Japan)

Sixth Army (Japan)

Japanese 6th Army (1945)
Parent unit China Expeditionary Army
Components


  • 70th Infantry Division
  • 133rd Infantry Division
  • IJA 66th Independent Combined Brigade
  • IJA 89th Independent Combined Brigade
  • IJA 91st Independent Combined Brigade

The Japanese 6th Army (第6軍, Dai-roku gun?) was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army initially based in Manchukuo as a garrison force under the overall command of the Kwantung Army. At the end of World War II it was active in east China.

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