Order of Battle For Battle of South Guangxi - Japan

Japan

21st Army (to Feb. 9th 1940) - Lt. Gen. Rikichi Andō

22nd Army (10 Feb 1940 - 19 Nov 1940,- Army disbanded) - Lt. Gen Seiichi Kuno

• 5th Division - General Hitoshi Imamura (9 Nov 1938 - 9 Mar 1940), Lt. General Akita Nakamura (9 Mar 1940 - 15 Oct 1940), Lt. General Takuro Matsui (15 Oct 1940 - 11 May 1942)
  • 9th Infantry Brigade
    • 11th Infantry Regiment
    • 41st Infantry Regiment
  • 21st Infantry Brigade - Major Gen. Masao Nakamura
    • 21st Infantry Regiment
    • 42nd Infantry Regiment
  • 5th Mountain Artillery Regiment
  • 5th Cavalry Regiment
  • 5th Engineer Regiment
  • 5th Transport Regiment
• Formosa Mixed Brigade- Major Gen. Sadaichi Shioda
  • 1st Formosa Infantry Regiment
  • 2nd Formosa Infantry Regiment
  • Formosa Artillery Regiment
  • Formosa Military Engineer Regiment

January 1940 reinforcements from Canton

• 18th Division - Lt. Gen. Seiichi Kuno
  • 23rd Infantry Brigade
    • 55th Infantry Regiment
    • 56th Infantry Regiment
  • 35th Infantry Brigade
    • 114th Infantry Regiment
    • 124th Infantry Regiment
  • 18th Mountain Artillery Regiment
  • 22nd Cavalry Battalion
  • 12th Engineer Regiment
  • 12th Transport Regiment
• Guards Mixed Brigade - Major Gen. Takeshi Sakurada
  • 1st Guards Infantry Regiment
  • 2nd Guards Infantry Regiment
  • Guards Cavalry Regiment
  • Guards Field Artillery Regiment (elements)
  • Guards Engineer Regiment (elements)
  • Guards Transport Regiment (elements)

Army Airforce:

• 21st Independent Aviation Corps, IJA - ?
  • Independent 82nd Dokuritsu Hiko Chutai - ?
    • Light bomber squadron. (reconnaissance aircraft)
  • Independent 84th Dokuritsu Hiko Chutai - Captain Magoji Hara
    • Nakajima Ki-27 (fighter aircraft)

Navy Airforce:

• 5th Fleet - Adm. Nobutake Kondō
  • 2nd Air Sentai - ?
  • Akagi (end/04/39 – middle/02/40)
    • Fighter Daitai - Mitsubishi A5M
    • Bomber Daitai - Aichi D1A2
    • Attack Daitai - Yokosuka B4Y1
  • 11th Destroyer Division--Hatsuyuki and Shirayuki
    • Kamikawa Maru - seaplane carrier
    • Chiyoda - seaplane carrier
• 3rd Combined Air Unit
  • 14th Kokutai, IJN - ?
    • Fighter Daitai - 13 Mitsubishi A5M

Notes:

• Initial landing and advance to Nanning by 5th Division and Formosa Mixed Brigade. Guards Mixed Brigade and the 18th Division were sent as reinforcements from Canton area in January 1940.

After 9 February 1940, the 18th Division was returned to Canton and the 21st Army was disbanded, the forces of the 21st Army came under the control of the Southern China Area Army (Canton) under General Rikichi Andō (10 Feb 1940 - 5 Oct 1940) and General Jun Ushiroku (5 Oct 1940 - 26 Jun 1941). The forces remaining in Guangxi, now subordinate to South China Front Army, became the Japanese Twenty-Second Army under Lt. Gen Seiichi Kuno (10 Feb 1940 - 19 Nov 1940), until the Army was disbanded at the end of the campaign. On June 3, 1940 the Guards Mixed Brigade became the 1st Guards Brigade of the Guards Division. The 2nd Imperial Guards Infantry Regiment under Col. Kunio Osonoe from 1st Guards Brigade was assigned to the Indochina Expeditionary Army in September, 1940. In October 1940, the remainder of 1st Guards Brigade (1st Guard Regiment and support units) joined other Japanese units occupying French Indochina.