Organization of the Imperial Japanese Navy Alaskan Strike Group

Summary

Organization of Japanese Alaskan Strike Group (Aleutians)

Japanese Navy units in the Alaskan Operation edit

Commander in Chief, Navy Alaskan Strike Group edit

1st Support Group Commander edit

2nd Carrier Squad Commander edit

3rd Cruiser Division (2° Section) edit

  • Comprising the Cruisers Maya, Takao, and three destroyers

Navy Aleutian Occupation force edit

Attu Group Commander edit

  • Sentaro Omori:-led Light Cruiser Abukuma, four destroyers, one minelayer, one transport (1,200 soldiers)

Kiska Group Commander edit

  • Takeo Ono:-Guiding the light cruisers Kiso, Tama, one auxiliary cruiser (Asaka Maru), three destroyers, two minelayers, two transports (1,250 soldiers)

Navy Hidro Fighter unit in Aleutian Operation edit

  • 5th Air Fleet:-equipped with Nakajima A6M2-N "Rufe" floatplane fighters, support operations from Kiska aquatic base, Aleutian islands.

Japanese Army Units in the Alaskan Operation edit

North Seas Detachment Commanders edit

  • Matsutoshi Hozumi:-He led one infantry battalion whose mission was to occupy the islands of Attu, Kiska, and Adak, in conjunction with naval units.
  • Juichiro Mineki:-he replaced at Hozumi in command of unit and receiving command of a reinforced group, grown to three infantry battalions, under Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Fleet.

Last Japanese Navy Infantry Commander in Alaskan Campaign edit

  • Yasugo Yamazaki:-commander of last Japanese Navy infantry group in Attu Japanese held island

References edit

  1. ^ Perras, Galen Roger (2003). Stepping Stones to Nowhere: The Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and American Military Strategy, 1867-1945. UBC Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-7748-0990-0.
  2. ^ Garfield, Brian (2010-04-15). Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians. University of Alaska Press. pp. 10–42. ISBN 978-1-60223-117-7.