The Imperial Japanese Army's 3rd Guards Division (近衛第3師団, Konoe Dai-san Shidan?) was formed in 1944 from the 8th, 9th and 10th Guards Regiments and stayed in Japan to defend the homeland during the Second World War.
3rd Guards Division
- 8th Guards Regiment
- 9th Guards Regiment
- 10th Guards Regiment
Famous quotes containing the words guards and/or division:
“When a strong man, fully armed, guards his castle, his property is safe. But when one stronger than he attacks him and overpowers him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divides his plunder.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 11:21.22.
“The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)