Organization of Kita and Minami Fortresses

rdf:langString Organization of Kita and Minami Fortresses

rdf:langString The Kita and Minami Fortresses (Japanese kita, "north" and minami, "south") were defensive structures of the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy in the Kuril Archipelago. The most northerly points were on the and capes, and its coastal front on the near in the Soviet Union's Kamchatka peninsula. This military organization was under the Twenty-Seventh Army (Chishima Area Base Unit or Kuril Area Army), led by . The Twenty-seventh Army was under the leadership of the Fifth Area Army, under the command of Kiichiro Higuchi whose headquarters was in Sapporo, Hokkaidō. The Twenty-Seventh Army was composed of the 42nd and 91st Divisions.