IJA air force ground troops in Nomonhan area.

[marek O.]

Hello gentlemen,

I have a question about IJA air ground troops in time of Nomonhan/Chalchin-gol Incident.
I have found some informations. But they are sketchy and uncertain. They were found on some Internet page. So I would like You to check my info and add something if You can - co's names, other units that my list is missing, dates when the units were there if at all, what airfield where they on? Here is my list:
7th Air Sector - 17th, 22nd, 36th Airfield Battalion
9th Air Sector - 20th, 48th Airfield Battalion
11th, 24th, 51st Airfield Battalion
2nd Air Information Unit
Air Communication Unit
Regards,
Marek

[fontessa]

Hello Marek,

With the Kwantung Army Order dated 19 June 1939, IJAAF units have been thrown to Nomonhan.

2nd Air Group HQ (LTG Giga Tetsuji 19)
- 7th Air Brigade (MG Hozoji Hisao 23)
- -1st Company, 15th Air Regiment (Reconnaissance planes) (LTC Abe Katsumi 28 KIA)
-- 1st Air Regiment (Fighters) (MAJ Kato Toshio 28)
-- 12th Air Regiments (Heavy Bombers) (COL Harada Uichiro 26)
-- 7th Air Sector Command (COL Hirakawa Tetsuichi 23)
---- 17th Airfield Battalion
---- Part of 22nd Airfield Battalion
---- Part of 36th Airfield Battalion
- 9th Air Brigade (MG Shimono Ikkaku 23)
-- 10th Air Regiment (Minus 2nd Company) (Reconnaissance planes) (COL Tazoe Noboru 26)
-- 61st Air Regiment (Heavy Bombers) (COL Mikami Kiichi 24)
-- 9th Air Sector Command (COL Nagaoka Motoe 24)
---- 20th Airfield Battalion
---- 48th Airfield Battalion
-- 12th Air Brigade (MG Azuma Eiji 23)
---- 11th Air Regiment (Fighters) (COL Noguchi Yujiro 24)
---- 24th Air Regiment (Fighters) (LTC Matsumura Torajiro 32)
---- 22nd Airfield Battalion (-)
---- 51st Airfield Battalion
- Air Signal Regiment (-) (COL Fujisawa Shigezo 26)
- 2nd Air Intelligence Unit (-) (MAJ Nakayama Masatsumi 30)
- 1st Mobile Air Repair Section
- 2nd Mobile Air Repair Section
- Temporally Established Airfield Construction Unit

I couldn’t find the deployment of the above units.

The 航空兵団司令部 Air Corps Command moved the schedule one year earlier and relocated from China to Manchuria on 1 September 1939. Command of the air battle at Nomonhan was taken over by the Air Corps Command on 5 September 1939. On 5 September 1939, 2nd Air Brigade's main force was added to the expeditionary force. The 軍隊区分 disposition of forces on the same day are as follows.

Air Corps Command (LTG Ehashi Eijiro 17)
- 2nd Air Brigade (MG Sasa makoto 23)
-- 1st Company, 29th Air Regiment (Fighters)
-- 9th Air Regiment (Fighters) (COL Namba Seisaku 26)
-- 65th Air Regiment (Fighters) (COL Fujioka Tomeo 27)
-- 16th Air Regiment (Light Bombers) (COL Otsuka Torao 26)
- 9th Air Brigade
-- 10th Air Regiment (Minus 2nd Company) (Reconnaissance planes) (COL Shirane Juji 28)
-- 33rd Air Regiment (Fighters) (COL Aoki Takezo 27)
-- 31st Air Regiment (Light Bombers) (COL Sato Shoichi 28)
-- 61st Air Regiment (Heavy Bombers)
- 12th Air Brigade (COL Matsuoka Shozo 23)
-- 1st Air Regiment (Fighters) (MAJ Yoshida Tadashi 35)
-- 59th Air Regiment (Fighters) (COL Imagawa Issaku 28)
-- 64th Air Regiment (Fighters) (MAJ Yokoyama Yatsuo 36)
- Assembled Air Brigade (COL Noguchi Yujiro 24)
-- 11th Air Regiment (Fighters) (ADD COL Noguchi Yujiro 24)
-- 24th Air Regiment (Fighters)
- 2nd Air Sector Command (COL Sonoda Ken’ichi 24)
-- 18th Airfield Battalion (-)
-- 22nd Airfield Battalion
-- 26th Airfield Battalion
-- 30th Airfield Battalion
-- Part of 36th Airfield Battalion
-- 51st Airfield Battalion
-- 18th Field Antiaircraft Artillery Unit
-- Antiaircraft Machine Cannon Unit, 9th Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment
-- Antiaircraft Machine Cannon Unit, 10th Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment
-- Antiaircraft Machine Cannon Unit, 8th Border Garrison Unit
-- 51st Line of Communications Motor Company
- 9th Air Sector Command
-- 20th Airfield Battalion
-- 21st Airfield Battalion
-- 41st Airfield Battalion
-- 48th Airfield Battalion
-- Part of 53rd Airfield Battalion
-- 94th Airfield Battalion
-- Half of 97th Airfield Battalion
-- 26th Field Antiaircraft Artillery Unit
-- 27th Field Antiaircraft Artillery Unit
-- Antiaircraft Machine Cannon Unit, 11th Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment
-- 1st Line of Communications Motor Company
- Units under direct command
-- 1st Company, 15th Air Regiment (Reconnaissance planes)
-- 53rd Airfield Battalion (-)
-- 1st Air Signal Regiment (COL Fujisawa Shigezo 26)
-- 2nd Air Intelligence Unit
-- 1st Mobile Air Repair Section
-- 2nd Mobile Air Repair Section
-- 3rd Mobile Air Repair Section

The below is from Senshi Sosho.
AB: Air Brigade
AS: Air Sector
#: Airfield

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fontessa

[marek O.]

Dear fontessa,

Thank You very much for Your answer. It is even more than I could have hoped for. Thank You once more.

Marek