The Imperial Japanese Army's 2nd Guards Division (近衛第2師団, Konoe Dai-ni Shidan?) was renumbered from the Imperial Guards Division in June 1943, when the 1st Guards Division was activated.
Its organization was:
2nd Guards Division
- 3rd Guards Infantry Regiment
- 4th Guards Infantry Regiment
- 5th Guards Infantry Regiment
- Guards Recon Regiment
- 2nd Guards Field Artillery Regiment
- 2nd Guards Field Engineer Regiment
- Support units
Famous quotes containing the words guards and/or division:
“The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, is to make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears;
Yet slower yet, oh faintly gentle springs:
List to the heavy part the music bears,
“Woe weeps out her division when she sings.”
Droop herbs and flowers;
Fall grief in showers;
“Our beauties are not ours”:
Oh, I could still,
Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,
Drop, drop, drop, drop,
Since nature’s pride is, now, a withered daffodil.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)