Thirty-Fifth Army (Japan)

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Japanese Thirty-third Army
Active	1944-07-26-1945-04-14
Country	Empire of Japan
Branch	Imperial Japanese Army
Type	Infantry
Role	Corps
Nickname	Sho (尚, Lasting?)

Japanese 35th Army (1945)
Parent unit	Japanese Fourteenth Area Army
Components	1st Infantry Division 16th Infantry Division 26th Infantry Division 30th Infantry Division 100th Infantry Division 102nd Infantry Division 54th Independent Mixed Brigade 55th Independent Mixed Brigade

The Japanese 35th Army (第35軍 , Dai-sanjyūgo gun^?) was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II.

Contents 1 History 2 List of Commanders 2.1 Commanding Officer 2.2 Chief of Staff 3 References 3.1 External links

[edit] History

The Japanese 35th Army was raised on 26 July 1944 in the Japanese-occupied Philippines in anticipation of Allied attempts to invade and retake Mindanao and the Visayan islands in central and southern Philippines. It was under the overall command of the Japanese Fourteenth Area Army. Initially intended as a garrison force intended to withstand a long-term war of attrition, as the war situation on the Pacific front grew increasingly desperate for Japan, the Imperial General Headquarters ordered the bulk of the IJA 35th Army to Leyte as reinforcement to Japanese forces in the Battle of Leyte. As the battle was lost, surviving units were given independent command authority, and were ordered to go to ground and wage a guerilla campaign with the Philippine Commonwealth troops on their respective islands for as long as possible. The IJA 35th Army was officially disbanded on 19 April 1945. Some individual Japanese stragglers did not give up until the 1970s.

[edit] List of Commanders

[edit] Commanding Officer

	Name	From	To
1	General Sosaku Suzuki	28 July 1944	14 June 1945
2	Lieutenant General Gyosaku Morozumi	14 June 1944	19 April 1945

[edit] Chief of Staff

	Name	From	To
1	Major General Yoshiharu Tomochika	28 July 1944	14 November 1944
2	Lieutenant General Takaji Wachi	14 November 1944	20 February 1945
3	Major General Yoshiharu Tomochika	20 February 1945	19 April 1945

[edit] References

• Drea, Edward J. (1998). "Leyte: Unanswered Questions", In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-1708-0. 
• Frank, Richard B (1999). Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-679-41424-X. 
• Jowett, Bernard (1999). The Japanese Army 1931-45 (Volume 2, 1942-45). Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1841763543. 
• Madej, Victor (1981). Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945. Game Publishing Company. ASIN: B000L4CYWW. 
• Marston, Daniel (2005). The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1841768820. 

[edit] External links

• Wendel, Marcus. Axis History Factbook. Japanese 33rd Army.