Twenty-Ninth Army (Japan)

Japanese 29th Army (1945)
Parent unit	Japanese Seventh Area Army
Components	94th Infantry Division IJA 35th Independent Combined Brigade IJA 36th Independent Combined Brigade IJA 37th Independent Combined Brigade IJA 70th Independent Combined Brigade

The Japanese 29th Army (第29軍 , Dai-nijyūkyu gun^?) was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II.

[edit] History

The Japanese 29th Army was initially raised on 6 January 1944 in the Taiping in Perak state in Japanese-occupied Malaya as a garrison force, and in anticipation of Allied attempted to invade and retake the Malay Peninsula. Initially under command of the Southern Expeditionary Army Group, the IJA 29th Army was transferred to the Japanese Seventh Area Army on 27 March 1944. As the war situation on the Pacific front grew increasingly desperate for Japan, the Imperial Japanese Army was unable to provide reinforcements and resupply to units south of the Philippines, and the IJA 29th Army was demobilized at the surrender of Japan without having seen combat.

	Name	From	To
Commanding Officer	Lieutenant General Teizo Ishiguro	7 January 1945	September 1945
Chief of Staff	Major General Masukura Fujimura	7 January 1944	1 February 1945
Chief of Staff	Major General Naoichi Kawara	1 February 1945	September 1945

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