Order of Battle January 28 Incident

This is an Order of Battle for January 28 Incident. The Order of Battle is of the First Shanghai Incident, Battle of Shanghai 1932. This was a brief war between the armies of the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan that occurred prior to the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Japan

Shanghai Expeditionary Army - General Yoshinori Shirakawa

• Lieutenant General Kanichiro Tashiro - Chief of Staff
• Army Troops:
  • Mixed Regiment Medium Artillery -
    • 3 Batteries 150mm Howitzers, 12 guns, horse drawn.
    • 2 Batteries 100mm guns, 8 guns, horse drawn.
• Army Air Service:
  • 3 Bomber Squadrons
  • 1 Pursuit Squadron (Nieuports)
  • 1 Reconnaissance Squadron
• 24th Mixed Brigade - Major General Kumaya Shimomoto
  • 2nd Battalion / 14th Infantry Regiment
  • 1st Battalion / 24th Infantry Regiment
  • 1st Battalion / 46th Infantry Regiment
  • 1st Battalion / 48th Infantry Regiment
  • 2nd Battalion / 3rd Independent Mountain Gun Regiment
  • 2nd Company / 18th Engineer Battalion
• 9th Division - Lieutenant General Kenkichi Ueda
  • 2nd Independent Tank Company - Captain Shigemi
    • 5 Type 89 Medium Tanks, 10 Renault NC27 Tanks
  • Cavalry Detachment
  • Battalion 150mm Howitzers
  • Heavy Siege Gun Unit, (6 150mm Mortars)
  • 6th Infantry Brigade
    • 7th Infantry Regiment
    • 35th Infantry Regiment
  • 18th Infantry Brigade
    • 19th Infantry Regiment
    • 36th Infantry Regiment
  • 9th Mountain Artillery Regiment
  • 9th Cavalry Regiment
• 11th Division - Lieutenant General Tokutarou Koutou
  • 10th Infantry Brigade
    • 12th Infantry Regiment
    • 22nd Infantry Regiment
  • 22nd Infantry Brigade
    • 43rd Infantry Regiment
    • 44th Infantry Regiment
  • 11th Mountain Artillery Regiment
  • 11th Cavalry Regiment
  • 11th Engineer Regiment
  • 11th Army Service Detachment
• 14th Division - Lieutenant General Naosuke Matsuki
  • 27th Infantry Brigade -
    • 2nd Infantry Regiment
    • 59th Infantry Regiment
  • 28th Infantry Brigade
    • 15th Infantry Regiment
    • 50th Infantry Regiment
  • 20th Field Artillery Regiment
  • 18th Cavalry Regiment
  • 14th Engineer Regiment
  • 14th Battalion of Army Service Corps

3rd Fleet - Vice Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura

• 34 warships including:
• Kirishima, Kongō-class battlecruiser
• Yura (由良), Nagara-class cruiser
• Tenryū, Tenryū-class cruiser
• Mutsuki, Mutsuki-class destroyer
• 1st Koku-sentai (Carrier Division) - ?
  • Aircraft carrier Kaga (flagship)
    • Nakajima A1N fighters
    • Mitsubishi B1M bombers
  • Aircraft carrier Hōshō
    • 9 Nakajima A1N2 fighters
    • 3 Mitsubishi B2M bombers
    • 3 Mitsubishi C1M Type 10 reconnaissance aircraft
• Shanghai SNLF (Captain Samejima) *[2000men]
  • 1st Battalion (Including Sasebo 1st SNLF)
  • 2nd Battalion (Former Kure 1st SNLF)
  • 3rd Battalion (Former Sasebo 2nd SNLF)
  • 4th Battalion (Former Sasebo 3rd SNLF)
  • 5th Battalion (Former Yokosuka 1st SNLF)
  • 7th Battalion (Former Yokosuka 2nd SNLF)
• Armed reservists and Ronin, agents 3000 men [2],[3]

Total Naval forces in Shanghai 5000 men [4]

Notes:

• [1] SNLF units were sent after the Incident happened. 2000men
• [2] Armed reservists, in civilian clothes distinguished by a brassard. [Est 2800-2900men]
• [3] Ronin, agents in civilian clothes. [Est 100-200men]
• [4]! Feb 4th strength of about 5,000 men
• @ from http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/japan_kuro-iwa.htm

China

Shanghai Front - General Cai Tingkai

• 19th Route Army - Lieutenant General Jiang Guangnai
  • 60th Division - Major General Sheng Guanghan
    • 119th Brigade
    • 120th Brigade
  • 61st Division - Lieutenant General Mao Weishou
    • 121st Brigade
    • 122nd Brigade
  • 78th Division - Lieutenant General Shu Zu-nien
    • 155th Brigade
    • 156th Brigade
• 3 Chinese armored trains (500men)
• Woosung Forts Garrison (2,000 men)
• 5th Army - General Zhang Zhizhong
  • 87th Division - Lieutenant General Lau Ching-yueh
    • 174th Brigade
    • 175th Brigade
  • 88th Division - Lieutenant General Yu Jishi
    • 176th Brigade
    • 177th Brigade
  • Independent Brigade - Major General Wang Ken

Notes:

• Woosung Forts harassed vessels with machine-gun fire.
• Chinese armored trains patrolled the Woosung Railroad line (500men)

Sources

• Posted on Axis History Forum, from "The Japanese attacks at Shangai and the defense by the Chinese. 1931-1932" And ORIGINAL MILITARY STUDY By Major E.D. Cooke, Infantry. Military Review, dec 1937. http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=78115
• Biplane fighter aces, Japan: http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/japan_kuro-iwa.htm
• The Shanghai Incident, from IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY PAGE: http://www3.plala.or.jp/takihome/history.htm