Order of battle for the Hainan Island Operation

Hainan Island Operation (10 February 1939) ^[1]

Japan

Hainan Conquest Forces - Vice Admiral Kondo Nobutake ^[2]

• Myoko (5th Fleet flagship) - Vice Admiral Kondo Nobutake
• Nagara
• Natori
• 23rd Destroyer Group
  • Mochizuki, Mutsuki, Mikazuki, Kikuzuki
• 45th Destroyer Group
  • Matsukaze, Asakaze
• 28th Destroyer Group
  • Yūnagi, Asanagi
• 12th Minesweeper Group
• 1st Air Sentai
  • Akagi, Chiyoda
• 1st Air Unit
  • 14th Kōkūtai
  • 16th Kōkūtai
• 4th Base Force
  • Yokosuka 4th SNLF
  • Kure 6th SNLF
  • Sasebo 8th SNLF
• 5th Garrison Unit
• Taiwan Mixed Brigade - (Major Gen. Iida)
  • Taiwan 1st Infantry Regiment
  • Taiwan 2nd Infantry Regiment
  • Taiwan Mountain Gun Regiment

China

Wang Yi in overall command of defense of Hainan ^[3][4]

• 5th Security Brigade - Wang Yi
  • 2 Security Regiments - About 1,600 men
  • 7 Guard Battalions (Newly formed from residents) - 1,750 men
• Communist Independent Battalion - 300 men
• Xiuying^[5] Battery Garrisons (Still undergoing organization) - 250 men

References

1. http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=880632#p880632 Axis History Forum: re: Hainan Island
2. http://www.f16.parsimony.net/forum27947/messages/7631.htm
3. http://www.f16.parsimony.net/forum27947/messages/7656.htm
4. http://www.hi.chinanews.com.cn/hnnew/2005-08-09/27531.html 日寇铁蹄何时践踏琼岛?1939年2月10日凌晨3时
5. Near Haikou.

Sources

• 中国抗日战争正面战场作战记 China's Anti-Japanese War Combat Operations
  • Author : Guo Rugui, editor-in-chief Huang Yuzhang
  • Press : Jiangsu People's Publishing House
  • Date published : 2005-7-1
  • ISBN 7-214-03034-9
  • Online in Chinese
    • 第七部分：相持阶段前期的作战海南岛作战 1 Hainan Island battles