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3rd Tank Division (Imperial Japanese Army)

Field	Value
unit_name	3rd Tank Division
image	IJA 3rd tank division, Shin-Hoto tank, Ichi-go.jpg
caption	A Type 97 Shinhoto Chi-Ha tank of the 3rd Tank Division during Operation Ichi-Go in northern China, December 1944
dates	1942–1945
country	Empire of Japan
branch	Imperial Japanese Army
type	Armored division
garrison	Tokyo, Japan
nickname	滝 = Taki (Torrent)
battles	Second Sino-Japanese War
World War II

World War II

5th Tank Brigade
- 8th Tank Regiment
  - 1 Light Tank Company
  - 3 Medium Tank Companies
  - 1 Gun Tank Company
- 12th Tank Regiment
  - 1 Light Tank Company
  - 3 Medium Tank Companies
  - 1 Gun Tank Company
6th Tank Brigade
- 13th Tank Regiment
  - 1 Light Tank Company
  - 3 Medium Tank Companies
  - 1 Gun Tank Company
- 17th Tank Regiment
  - 1 Light Tank Company
  - 3 Medium Tank Companies
  - 1 Gun Tank Company
1. Reconnaissance regiment
- 2 Light Tank Companies
- 1 Gun Tank Company
- 1 Motorized Infantry Company
3rd Tank Division Mobile Infantry Regiment
3rd Tank Division Mobile Artillery Regiment
3rd Tank Division Anti-Tank Unit
3rd Tank Division Anti-Aircraft Unit
3rd Tank Division Engineer Unit

The 3rd Tank Division, was one of four armored divisions of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.

History

The 3rd Tank Division was raised in Inner Mongolia in 1942 as part of the Japanese Northern China Area Army under the overall aegis of the Mongolia Garrison Army.

Initially tasked primarily with border patrol of Manchukuo's western frontier with the Soviet Union, from April 1944, it participated in Operation Ichi-Go in northern China against the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China. The two primary goals of Ichi-go were to open a land route to French Indochina, and capture air bases in southeast China from which American bombers were attacking the Japanese homeland and shipping.

The 3rd Tank Division’s IJA 8th Armored Regiment (formerly based in Mukden) was detached in June 1944, and transferred to the control of the Japanese Eighth Area Army in Rabaul.

The IJA 12th Armored Regiment, formerly based in Taiyuan, was withdrawn to bolster the defenses of Seoul in Korea towards the closing stages of the war and as part of the Japanese Seventeenth Area Army was in combat against the Soviet Red Army’s invasion of Manchuria.

The IJA 13th Armored Regiment, normally based in Hankou was withdrawn to Tianjin in 1944, and ended the war in Changsha. The IJA 17th Armored Regiment ended the war in Tianjin.

The 3rd Tank Division was officially demobilized in September 1945 with the rest of the Imperial Japanese Army.

Commanding officer

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Notes

References

Ness, Leland. (2015). "Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945: Volume 1". Helion and Company.

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