70th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)

70th Division
第70師団
Active 1942 - 1945
Country Empire of Japan
Allegiance Sixth Army (Japan)
Branch Imperial Japanese Army
Type Infantry
Role Internal security
Engagements Second Sino-Japanese War
Commanders
Notable
commanders		 Uchida Takayuki (内田孝行)

The 70th Division was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army. It was created on February 2, 1942 by blending a detachment from 20th Independent Mixed Brigade (Imperial Japanese Army) to 62nd infantry brigade in Ningbo and disbanded in September 1945 in Jiaxing. Being the counter-insurgency division (C-type/hei-type) it lacked an artillery force. The men of the division were drafted through 5th military district, located in Hiroshima Prefecture.

Action

After completing a training, the division was sent to Shanghai area in April 1942 to perform a security and police duties. From May 1942, the division operated in Guangde County, Quzhou, Lishui, Wenzhou and other prefectures. Later it taken a defensive positions in the direction of Jiaxing. It was subordinated to the Kwantung Army as part of 6th army, and ordered to go to Manchuria during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945.

Order of Battle

Reference and further reading

This article incorporates material from the article 第70師団_(日本軍) in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved on 13 January 2015.

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