Name |
Kanji |
Formed |
Dissolved |
Callsign |
Location, notes
|
Provisional Air Division (Japan) |
航空兵団 |
1 August 1936 |
1 June 1942 |
- |
Tokyo-North China-Manchuria
|
1st Air Division (Japan) |
第1飛行師団 |
10 June 1938 |
1945 |
Tip (鏑, Kabura) 1045 |
Kakamigahara-Sapporo-Obihiro, was dissolved in 1942 and re-formed in 1943
|
2nd Air Division (Japan) |
第2飛行師団 |
24 July 1937 |
17 May 1945 |
Vulture (Tip, [鷲] Error: {{nihongo}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) (help), Washi) |
Manchuria-Philippines (1944)-Singapore (1945)[1]
|
3rd Air Division (Japan) |
第3飛行師団 |
15 April 1942 |
14 February 1944 |
Hawk (隼, Hayabusa) 2375 |
China-French Indochina-Dutch East Indies-Myanmar-China
|
4th Air Division (Japan) |
第4飛行師団 |
15 April 1942 |
1944/1945 |
Wing (翼, Tsubasa) |
Manchuria-Philippines (1944) merged in 2nd Air Division
|
5th Air Division (Japan) |
第5飛行師団 |
15 April 1942 |
1945 |
High (高, Taka) |
Myanmar-Phnom Penh(1945)
|
6th Air Division (Japan) |
第6飛行師団 |
26 November 1942 |
1 August 1944 |
Ocean (洋, hiroshi) |
Rabaul-New Guinea
|
7th Air Division (Japan) |
第7飛行師団 |
28 January 1943 |
21 July 1945 |
Raid (襲) |
New Guinea-Ambon (1944)-Philippines (1944)
|
8th Air Division (Japan) |
第8飛行師団 |
10 June 1943 |
1945 |
True (誠, Makoto) 18900 |
Taipei
|
9th Air Division (Japan) |
第9飛行師団 |
10 December 1943 |
1945 |
Soaring (翔, Kakeru) |
Palembang
|
10th Air Division (Japan) |
第10飛行師団 |
8 March 1944 |
1945 |
Soaring Ambition (天翔, Tensho) |
Tokyo
|
11th Air Division (Japan) |
第11飛行師団 |
15 July 1944 |
1945 |
Soaring Eagles (天鷲, Amawashi) |
Taisho Airfield
|
12th Air Division (Japan) |
第12飛行師団 |
15 July 1944 |
1945 |
Soaring Wind (天風, Tenpu) |
Kozuki Airfield
|
13th Air Division (Japan) |
第13飛行師団 |
26 February 1945 |
1945 |
Pioneer Hawks (隼魁) |
Hanguchi
|
51st Air Division (Japan) |
第51飛行師団 |
? |
1945 |
? |
?[2]
|
52nd Air Division (Japan) |
第52飛行師団 |
1935 |
1945 |
? |
former Kumagayari flight school
|
53rd Air Division (Japan) |
第53飛行師団 |
? |
1945 |
? |
?
|
54th Air Division (Japan) |
第54飛行師団 |
? |
1945 |
? |
?
|
55th Air Division (Japan) |
第55飛行師団 |
? |
1945 |
? |
?
|
Teishin Shudan |
第1挺進集団 |
? |
1945 |
? |
paratroopers
|
Tachikawa Training Air Maintenance division |
立川教導航空整備師団 |
20 June 1944 |
1945 |
? |
former Tachikawa flight school in Tachikawa Airfield
|
Mito Training Air Transport division |
水戸教導航空通信師団 |
May 1945 |
1945 |
? |
former Army air transport school in Ibaraki Airport
|
Shimoshidu Training Air division |
下志津教導飛行師団 |
June 1945 |
1945 |
? |
former Shimoshidu air school in Wakaba-ku
|
Akenokyo Training Air division |
明野教導飛行師団 |
June 1945 |
1945 |
? |
former Akenokyo air school in Obata, Mie
|
Hitachi Training Air division |
常陸教導飛行師団 |
November 1944 |
1945 |
? |
former Hitachi air school in Hitachi, Ibaraki, split from Akenokyo flight school in March 1944
|
Hokota Training Air division |
鉾田教導飛行師団 |
June 1944 |
1945 |
? |
former Hokota air school in Hokota, Ibaraki
|
Hamamatsu Training Air division |
浜松教導飛行師団 |
June 1944 |
1945 |
? |
former Hamamatsu Army air school in Hamamatsu
|
Utsunomiya Training Air division |
宇都宮教導飛行師団 |
June 1944 |
1945 |
? |
former Shirokiko Army air school in Tokorozawa, Saitama, later in Northeast China.
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