Members of the 65th Independent Infantry Brigade during a Bansai attack on Cape Gloucester.
The 65th Independent Infantry Brigade was an Imperial Japanese Army unit during the Second world war. It saw combat during the Battle of Cape Gloucester
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The 65th Independent Infantry Brigade was a smaller unit of the Imperial Japanese army. The unit, even if it was at the size of a Brigade had a fully functional transport, tank and medical unit as well as a divisional head quarters and staff officers. The 65th Independent Infantry Brigade was assigned to the defence of Cape Gloucester, where it fought units of the American 1st Marine Division and failed to repel the American invasion and liberation of the former Dutch colony of New Britain in New Guinea. The commanding officer of the 65th Independent Infantry Brigade was Lieutenant General Iwao Matsuda.
