Japan War Records

Introduction to the Japanese War Records

Thanks to Mr. Ge Shuya in YungNan China, who sent me the Chinese translation of Japanese War Records. These are given in this section of the Menu. I would also like to thank the translator Mr. Liu for his effort and for his willingness to share these documents with us before they are published. Anyone wishing to quote it, please respect copy rights of the translator(s).

As a translation, they are MS Word documents in Chinese. MS Word 2000 will be able to display Chinese documents. Therefore, your older version may not work. As technology changes, I think you will catch on.

The writers of Japanese War Record always refer their enamies led by General Stilwell. However, General Sun Li Jen is mentioned in a few places. In order to understand the record, I suggest you keep the following information in mind.

The Chinese armies in the second stage of the war (counter attack) can be divided into two parts. The New First Army faught from the west at the border of Burma and India. They started from Ledo, constructing the Stilwell Road, as well as an oil pipeline. From YuengNan, other armies also faught towards Myitkyaina.

General Cheng TungKuo was the commander of the New First Army for a while. During that time, Gen. Sun was the Vice Commander and also the Commander of the New 38 Division. Gen. Cheng did not participate much in the war, and soon, Gen. Sun became the Commander of the New First Army.

Both Generals Stilwell and Sun made up the strategy and faught the War, especially for the portion related to the Army. General Stilwell led the entire war, and he has the authority over the Marauders and the Flying Tigers (the 14th Air Force).

I have corresponded with many retired Americans from these units, and I have learned that they respected the First Army very much. They expressed their admiration for Gen. Sun too. Thus, reading these Japanese War Record made me particularly proud of the First Army and General Sun. I certainly also respect the Americans, especially General Stilwell for their contribution. A lot have been written about their contribution in the English literature, and I want to emphasize the contribution of the Chinese in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater in this website.

The Chinese War Records

I have a complete collection or the Chinese War Record, given to me by an ex-officer of the New First Army. I think he got hold of the copy from a visit in China during the 1980s. I am studying it so that I will be able to wite this part in the future. For the moment, these records are not available on the Internet yet.

First of all, I wish to make a chronology for these battles and send it to Mr. Shuya Ge to help his study. Again, I face the same difficulty regarding the (English and Chinese) names of these places.

The Japanese War Records

Mr. Shuya Ge has just started the translation of the Japanese War Record. Thus, please consider the following documents as part of the record. In particular, these are the records regarding the battle in the HuKawng Valley.

All the Japanese Armies are under the command of the 18th ???. 18th ??? records of Hukang Battle described their view of the battle. In particular, you may find their view of the Chinese New First Army rather interesting. They also tasted the power of America, and the combined ability of Gen. Stilwell and Gen. Sun.

I jumpped up when I read "This Chinese New First Army is so different." The New 1st Army gave shocked them.

Another unit of the Japanese Army has a slight different view of the Battle of Hukawng Battle as shown in this document.