Imperial Japanese Army Cavalry
At the beginning of the second world war most of the japanese army 27 divisions was stationed in china.
Imperial japanese army cavalry. It was originally assigned to the kwantung army. At the outbreak of the second world war the basic structure of the imperial japanese army was as follows. It became the foundation of the imperial japanese army after the emperor meiji assumed all the powers of state during the meiji restoration. The first pattern of which this sword is an example known as ko in japanese was issued to cavalry nco s and had a blade length of 33 inches 83 8cm.
The 4th cavalry brigade of the imperial japanese army was originally formed april 1 1909. The cavalry group of the imperial japanese army ija was formed on april 21 1933 consisting of the ija 1st cavalry brigade and ija 4th cavalry brigade. It was then assigned to the cavalry group to northern china area army june 1938. The ija 3rd cavalry brigade was added in october 1937.
Authorized organization cavalry brigade 8th december 1941 cavalry brigades. This provided a combined arms force of infantry artillery cavalry and other support units. This sword replaced the type 25 model 1892 and equipped imperial japanese army cavalry nco s during the russo japanese war 1905 ww1 1914 1918 manchuria 1937 1941 and ww2 1941 1945. The divisional mixed brigade was the semi permanent detachment of a brigade from an infantry division with various divisional support units or units attached from its corps or army.
The imperial guard of the imperial japanese army was formed in 1867. The japanese imperial army had two types of mixed brigades. In 1941 the imperial japanese army had 51 divisions and various special purpose artillery cavalry anti aircraft and armored units with a total of 1 700 000 people. Imperial army 230 000 250 000 men commanded by marshal hih prince kan in kotohito general army 総軍 sō gun equivalent to the army group or front commanded by a marshal or general area.
It was assigned to kwantung army in april 1933 as part of the ija cavalry group.