Captured Japanese Equipment

Updated March 20, 2006
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  Transbaikal Front 2nd Far Eastern Front 1st Far Eastern Front Total
Tanks 163 86 120 369
Airplanes 502 - 359 861
Guns 358 271 705 1334
Self-propelled Guns - 15 - 15
Machine-guns 1137 1111 881 3129
Rifles 86364 51281 54326 191971
Pistols - 300 - 300
Mortars - 96 1117 1223
Flame throwers - 2 - 2
Grenades - 6150 - 6150
Antitank mines - 700 - 700
Shells and mines 578146 195080 - 774106*1
Cartridges 1707000 300000 - 2007000
Automobiles 692 192 1417 2301
Armored cars 17 - 18 35
Tractors 26 6 51 82
Prime-movers 42 - - 42
Turret-type gunboats - 4 - 4
Armored boat - 6 - 6
Patrol boats - 10 - 10
Cutters - 14 - 14
Landing boats - 57 - 57
Boom-net minelayer - 9 - 9
Light machine-guns*2 - 1651 - 1651
Steamboats - 33 - 33
Barges - 88 - 88
Rubber boats 1800 - - 1800
Different depots 238 43 441 722
Tire-covers 2000 - - 2000
Automobile air bladders 22370 - - 22370
Equipment of rubber plant 1 - - 1
Equipment of car assembly plant 1 - - 1
Equipment of aluminium plant 1 - - 1
Equipment of powder plant 1 - - 1
Equipment of coke plant 1 - - 1
Equipment of chemical plant 1 - - 1
Equipment of synthetic fuel plant 2 - - 2
Depots, spares and critical materials 250 railroad cars - - 250 railroad cars
Motor-garage with repair fund for 2000 cars - - 2000 cars
Steam locomotives - 6 35 41
Railroad cars - 54 5526 5580
Motortrolleys - 12 - 12
Radio stations - 5 - 5
Keyboards (communcation) - 11 - 11
Telephone sets - 130 - 130
Rails - 30000 - 30000
Sleepers - 230000 - 230000
Fuel (tons) - 470 - 470
Building materials, tons - 850 - 850
Carving wood, m3 - 1000 - 1000
Forage, tons - 40000 - 40000
Currency "Gobi" *3 - 15700 - 15700

Rem. Document is dated Sept. 2'45

Rem. AMVAS: I can't exclude some captured equipment was transferred to Chinese communists without any documentation. In another document from Aug. 29'45 from teh 2nd Far Eastern Front the number of captured radio-stations, for example, is 35.

 

*1 - Sum total gives 773226;

*2 - It's strange light machine guns to be placed here. Machine guns were counted earlier. May be some sort of typo.

*3 - Japan currency (Yena) was not cited, but in another document from the 2nd Far Eastern Front on Aug. 29'45 783726 yen had been captured.


Literature:
  1. "Sovetsko-Yaponskaya vojna 1945 goda: istoriya voyenno-politicheskogo protivoborstva dvuh derzhav v 30-40-t gody", Russkiy Archiv. Velikaya Otechestvennaya, vol. 18-7(2), Terra, Moscow, 2000, p 137-138

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