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    JAPANESE IN BATTLE 1st Edition [Illustrated Edition]
    JAPANESE IN BATTLE 1st Edition [Illustrated Edition]
    JAPANESE IN BATTLE 1st Edition [Illustrated Edition]
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    JAPANESE IN BATTLE 1st Edition [Illustrated Edition]

    By Military Intelligence Staff GHQ India

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    Illustrated with more than 20 maps plans and photos.
    When this handbook was written in 1943 the Japanese soldier was seen by British Empire troops as a jungle fighting superman, who had largely blitzed and defeated them at every turn. As part of an effort to dispel this myth the Intelligence Section of General Headquarters in India set about distilling the tactics that the Japanese had used and to formulate counter-measures. As the staff point out in their introduction;
    “The Japanese are an island race who have mastered the art of war, not through any mysterious or indefinable quality inherited from their Emperor, their islands, or their ancestors during your grandfather’s time they were still in the bow-and-arrow stage-but through serious study of ancient and modern methods, and by intensive training. If we analyse their tactics, reducing them to fundamentals, all that they practise is to be found in our own training manuals, or in the military histories of ancient campaigns; not even the snipers in the trees are new-the jungle tribes of Africa and Brazil have employed them since time immemorial.
    “In their long history the peoples of our Empire have shown the world that they possess more than an average share of courage and tenacity, and today we must add to these advantages our undoubted superiority in arms and equipment. Any success which the Japanese have had against us was due to intensive training, carefully rehearsed plans and normal guts. Whatever the task in hand-be it the digging of a single fox-hole or the preparation of a large-scale invasion-their work is done with meticulous care, and by intensive and sustained training alone can we hope to outmanoeuvre them.”
    As close to a handbook in English of how the Japanese fought and won their battles in the jungles of Southeast Asia at the beginning of the Second World War: A fascinating read.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVerdun Press
    Release dateAug 15, 2014
    ISBN9781782896180
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      JAPANESE IN BATTLE 1st Edition [Illustrated Edition] - Military Intelligence Staff GHQ India

       This edition is published by PICKLE PARTNERS PUBLISHING—www.picklepartnerspublishing.com

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      Text originally published in 1943 under the same title.

      © Pickle Partners Publishing 2014, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

      Publisher’s Note

      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      JAPANESE IN BATTLE

      1st Edition

      GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, INDIA

      MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORATE 4/G.S.I. (t) MAY 1943

      THIS DOCUMENT MUST NOT FALL INTO ENEMY HANDS

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

      FOREWORD. 7

      CHAPTER I. GENERAL 8

      1. Morale. 8

      2. Tactical Characteristics. 9

      3. The Principles of War. 9

      4. An Example of strategic mobility. 10

      5. Orders. 12

      Example 1. 13

      Example 2. 13

      Example 3. 14

      Particulars of Commands. 15

      7. Training and rehearsals. 16

      8. Road blocks. 17

      CHAPTER II.—THE COUNTRY YOU MAY FIGHT IN. 18

      CHAPTER III.—THE DEFENCE. 24

      1. General considerations. 24

      2. Choice of a defensive position. 24

      3. Organization of a defensive position. 25

      4. Examples of defensive positions. 26

      Example 1. 26

      Example 2. 27

      Example 3. 28

      Example 4. 29

      Example 5. 30

      Example 6. 32

      Example 7. 32

      Example 8. 33

      Example 9. 34

      Example 10. 35

      Example 11. 36

      Example 12. 37

      Example 13. 38

      Example 14. 39

      Example 15. 40

      5. Conduct of the defence. 44

      6. Examples of the defensive battle. 45

      Example 1. 45

      Example 2. 47

      CHAPTER IV.—A.A. DEFENCES 52

      1. General. 52

      2. Equipment. 52

      3. Organization. 53

      4. Tactics and Layouts. 53

      Example 1. 54

      Example 2. 55

      Example 3. 57

      5. Conclusions. 59

      CHAPTER V.—THE ADVANCE TO CONTACT. 60

      1. General. 60

      2. Reconnoitering and Striking Elements. 60

      3. First Contact. 60

      4. Demonstrations. 60

      5. The encounter battle. 61

      CHAPTER VI.—OFFENSIVE TACTICS. 62

      1. General. 62

      2. Envelopment. 62

      3. Attack in mobile warfare. 62

      4. Attack against a fortified position. 63

      5. Examples of Offensive Tactics. 64

      Example 1.—Envelopment and Attack in the Arakan. Map 1. 64

      Example 2.—A company attack in New Guinea described by one of the platoon commanders 10th August 1942. 67

      6. As others see us—British defending Japanese attacking. (Translation of a captured Japanese document.) 68

      CHAPTER VII.—NIGHT OPERATIONS 69

      1. Training for night operations. 69

      2. General rules. 69

      Example 1.—Night operation by a regiment. 70

      Example 2.—A platoon night attack described by the commander of the platoon which made it. 73

      EPILOGUE 75

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 76

      FOREWORD.

      The Japanese are an island race who have mastered the art of war, not through any mysterious or indefinable quality inherited from their Emperor, their islands, or their ancestors during your grandfather’s time they were still in the bow-and-arrow stage—but through serious study of ancient and modern methods, and by intensive training. If we analyse their tactics, reducing them to fundamentals, all that they practise is to be found in our own training manuals, or in the military histories of ancient campaigns; not even the snipers in the trees are new—the jungle tribes of Africa and Brazil have employed them since time immemorial.

      In their long history the peoples of our Empire have shown the world that they possess more than an average share of courage and tenacity, and today we must add to these advantages our undoubted superiority in arms and equipment. Any success which the Japanese have had against us was due to intensive training, carefully rehearsed plans and normal guts. Whatever the task in hand—be it the digging of a single fox-hole or the preparation of a large-scale invasion—their work is done with meticulous care, and by intensive and sustained training alone can we hope to outmanoeuvre them.

      This pamphlet is largely the work of soldiers and airmen fighting in Burma and the south west Pacific who, in notes, sketches and photographs, have recorded their observations of the Japanese in Battle.

      Special acknowledgement is due to the American Marine Liaison Officer of the Pacific Ocean Areas whose appreciation of Japanese characteristics and methods has been quoted in Chapter I, Section 2. Acknowledgement is also due to our Allies for the drawings reproduced as Examples 13 and 15 in Section 4 of the Chapter on Defence.

      Part II, which is devoted to the important subject of counter measures, is being prepared by the Military Training Directorate, G.H.Q., India Command.

      CHAPTER I. GENERAL

      1. Morale.

      When I received my mobilization orders, I had already sacrificed my life for my country. . . .you must not expect me to return alive

      1. This sentence is quoted from a letter found on the body of a dead conscript. It is by no means exceptional and indicates a fanatical conception of service which finds expression in a disregard for personal safety and a readiness to fight to the last man and the last round. The morale from which such feelings of self-sacrifice spring, is based on an attitude of mind assiduously cultivated from a very early age.

      Japanese moral training instils a strong religious belief; Comrades who have fallen! reads what is almost the last entry in a soldier’s diary, Soon we shall be fighting our last fight to avenge you, and all of us together, singing a battle song, will march to Kudan. (Kudan is a shrine near Tokyo dedicated to the war dead). The second pillar of Japanese morale is deep personal devotion to the

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