January 28 incident order of battle

This is the order of battle for the January 28 incident, also known as the first Shanghai incident, in 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.

Because the Japanese assumed the tactical initiative, their forces are listed first.

Japan

Shanghai Expeditionary Army General Yoshinori Shirakawa Chief of Staff: Lieutenant General Kanichiro Tashiro Army troops Mixed Regiment Medium Artillery 3 batteries (150mm howitzers, 12 guns, horse drawn) 2 batteries (100mm guns, 8 guns, horse drawn) 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 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 2nd Independent Tank Company Captain Shigemi 5 Type 89 Medium Tanks 10 Renault NC27 Tanks Cavalry Detachment Artillery Battalion (150mm howitzers) Heavy Siege Gun Unit (150mm mortars, 6 guns) 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 Army Air Service 3 bomber squadrons 1 pursuit squadron (Nieuports) 1 reconnaissance squadron

Third Fleet Vice Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura 1st Carrier Division (Koku-sentai) Fleet carrier Kaga (加賀) (flagship) Nakajima A1N fighters Mitsubishi B1M bombers Light carrier Hōshō (鳳翔) 9 Nakajima A1N2 fighters 3 Mitsubishi B2M bombers 3 Mitsubishi C1M Type 10 reconnaissance aircraft 32 other warships including 1 Kongō-class battlecruiser: Kirishima (霧島) 1 Nagara-class cruiser: Yura (由良) 1 Tenryū-class cruiser: Tenryū (天龍) 1 Mutsuki-class destroyer: Mutsuki (睦月) Shanghai SNLF Captain Samejima (2,000 men)[a] 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 (est. 2,800-2,900 men)[b] and Ronin (est. 100-200 men)[c] Total Naval forces in Shanghai as of Feb 1932: approx. 5,000 men

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 (500 men)[d] Woosung Forts Garrison (2,000 men)[e]

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

1. SNLF units were sent after the incident happened.
2. In civilian clothes, distinguished by a brassard
3. In civilian clothes
4. Patrolled the Woosung Railroad line
5. Harassed vessels with machine-gun fire

Sources

Print

• Cooke, Major Elliot .D. (Dec 1937). The Japanese attacks at Shanghai and the defense by the Chinese, 1931-1932. Military Review.

Web

• "Shanghai 1932". Axis History Forum. Retrieved November 23, 2022.
• "Japanese biplane fighter aces". Håkans aviation page. Retrieved November 23, 2022.
• "The Shanghai Incident". Imperial Japanese Army page. Retrieved November 23, 2022.