Order of battle for Amoy Operation

Order of battle for Amoy Operation May 10–12, 1938

Japan

Amoy Operation May 10–12, 1938[1]

5th Fleet - Vice Admiral Koichi Shiozawa [2]

  • 9th Sentai - ?
    • Myōkō [heavy cruiser][3]
      • Armament: 10–20 cm/50cal gun (2x5), 8-12.7 cm/40cal AA gun (2x4), 4-13.2mm AA, 8–61 cm TT (4x2), 2 aircraft
    • Tama [Light cruiser][3]
      • Armament 7–14 cm/50cal gun, 2–8 cm/40cal AA gun, 8–53 cm TT, 48 mines
  • 10th Sentai - ?
    • Tenryū [Light cruiser][3]
      • Armament: 4–14 cm/50cal gun, 3–8 cm/40cal AA gun, 6–53 cm TT (3x2)
    • Tatsuta [Light cruiser][3]
      • Armament: 4–14 cm/50cal gun, 3–8 cm/40cal AA gun, 6–53 cm TT (3x2)
    • 1st Gunboat Unit
      • 4 gunboats?
  • 1st Air Sentai - ? *
  • 3rd Air Sentai -? *
    • Kamoi seaplane tender
      • 12 aircraft [probably NAKAJIMA TYPE 95 RECON SEAPLANE (E8N1-DAVE)][4]
  • 2nd Combined SNLF
    • Yokosuka 2nd SNLF
    • Kure 3rd SNLF
    • Sasebo 7th SNLF
  • Jinmen Garrison
  • 1st Garrison Unit

Notes

  1. Earlier in the Shanghai campaign the 1st Air Sentai had an escort of a 30th Tai of 4 destroyers. Formerly Kamoi had an escort of 28th Tai of 4 destroyers also. It is likely they had similar if not the same escorts here.
  2. From: History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
    • 5/10 11 Ships and 18 planes bombarded Ho-to and Ao-tou. 20 motor boats landed infantry at Wu-tung.
    • 5/11 More landings at Huang-tso and Ta-tao. 3 destroyers and 2 Gunboats attacked the fortress there to cover the landings. This indicates there was at least one Tai of destroyers with this operation.

China

Amoy Defense Operation May 10–12, 1938

Amoy Area - Director, Fukien Pacification HQ. - Chen Yi[1]

  • 75th Division - Han Wen-ying
  • Amoy fortress Command - Kao Hsien-shen
    • Pai-shih Fortress
    • Yu-tse-wei Fortress (naval garrison)
      • 2 Batteries of Fortress Garrison Forces
        • Hui-li-shan battery
        • Pan-shih battery

Sources

  1. 1 2 Hsu Long-hsuen; Chang Ming-kai (1971). History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). Wen Ha-hsiung (trans.) (2nd ed.). Taiwan Republic of China: Chung Wu Publishing.
  2. ↑ "Imperial Japanese Navy".
  3. 1 2 3 4 "抗日战争时期的侵华日军序列沿革 (Order of battle of the Japanese army that invaded China during the Sino Japanese War)".
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Sino-Japanese Air War 1937-45".
  • Madej, W. Victor (1981). Japanese Armed Forces Order of Battle, 1937-1945 [2 vols]. Allentown, PA.
  • "Axis History forum: The Sino-Japanese War(Campaigns in detail)".
  • "Axis History forum: OOB IJN Amphibious Assault Xiamen (Amoy) May 10, 1938] Maps, narrative, oob info and discussion".
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