japanese infantry advancing under the cover of night (burma 1942)

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japanese officer Major Takikawa was in command of a battalion of the kwantung army 135th Infantry Division during the soviet invasion of manchuria in august 1945, during the Battle of Mutanchiang Takikawa's battalion temporarily halted Soviet units of 1st Red Banner Army, during the fighting his battalion inflicted heavy losses on the  soviet 257th Tank Brigade, in 14th august soviets repeatly attacked Takikawa's battalion, takikawa was forced to retread but destroyed five soviet t-34 tanks, a few days later Takikawa's battalion was smashed and forced to retread permanently from the battlefield 

Major Takikawa

japanese army officer hideki saito of the 15th infantry Division, he fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Burma Campaign and surrended to the americans in thailand 1945, however he and a number of officers of the 22nd Division refused to return to Japan , and joined the Viet Minh in their struggle for independence (First Indochina War) against the returning French colonial forces.

