Mongolia Garrison Army

Japanese Mongolia Garrison Army
Active	1937-12-27-1946-07-27
Country	Empire of Japan
Branch	Imperial Japanese Army
Type	Infantry
Role	Corps
Garrison/HQ	Kalgan
Nickname	Bō (戊, Bō^?)

Japanese Mongolia Garrison Army (1945)
Parent unit	North China Area Army
Components	26th Infantry Division IJA 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade

The Mongolia Garrison Army (駐蒙軍 , Chūmōgun^?) was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

[edit] History

The Japanese Mongolia Garrison Army was raised on 27 December 1937 as a garrison force Japanese-dominated Inner Mongolia and adjacent areas of north China. From 4 July 1938, the Mongolia Garrison Army came under the administrative jurisdiction of the North China Area Army. January 1939 the IJA Cavalry Group was added, consisting of the IJA 1st Cavalry Brigade and IJA 4th Cavalry Brigade. In December 1942 the 4th Cavalry Brigade was sent to the Japanese Twelfth Army and the remainder of the Cavalry Group was converted into the IJA 3rd Tank Division.

During most of the Second Sino-Japanese War and due to the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact, the Inner Mongolia was largely a backwater region, and the Mongolia Garrison Army, with its antiquated horse cavalry functioned largely to assist and train the Mengjiang National Army and Mongolian Cavalry Corps. It was thus unprepared for the massive Soviet Red Army armored assault in Operation August Storm at the end of World War II. The Mongolia Garrison Army was officially disbanded on 27 July 1946.

	Name	From	To
1	General Shigeru Hasunuma	28 December 1937	31 August 1939
2	Field Marshal Hajime Sugiyama	31 August 1939	12 September 1939
3	General Noasaburo Okabe	12 September 1939	29 September 1940
4	General Masataka Yamawaki	29 September 1940	20 January 1941
5	General Shigetaro Amakasu	20 January 1941	2 March 1942
6	Lieutenant General Ichiro Shichida	2 March 1942	28 May 1943
7	Lieutenant General Yoshio Kozuki	28 May 1943	22 November 1944
8	Lieutenant General Hiroshi Nemoto	22 November 1944	19 August 1945

	Name	From	To
1	Colonel Tora Ishimoto	28 December 1937	13 January 1939
2	General Shinichi Tanaka	12 February 1939	1 August 1940
3	Lieutenant General Shigeru Takahashi	1 August 1940	21 October 1941
4	Lieutenant General Toyojiro Inamura	21 October 1941	1 December 1942
5	Lieutenant General Masao Yano	1 December 1942	26 October 1944
6	Major General Ryozu Nakagawa	26 October 1944	19 August 1945

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