2nd Division (Imperial Japanese Army) - Assignments

Assignments

• April 1931: Kwantung Army, Manchuria.

　Operated in the Invasion of Manchuria and later the Pacification of Manchukuo.

• 10 February 1937: Kwantung Army, Manchukuo.

　Detached 15th Mixed Brigade served in Operation Chahar.

• 21 July 1938: 3rd Army, Kwantung Army, Manchukuo.
  Detached 15th Mixed Brigade served in Nomonhan/Khalkhin Gol Campaign.

• 27 September 1940: Eastern Army, Japan.

• 6 November 1941: 16th Army,Japan.

　For the operation against Java.

• August 1942: 17th Army, Solomon Islands.
  　　Guadalcanal campaign
• January 1944: 18th Army, South Burma.

• February 1945: 38th Army, Indochina.