page_title: 91st Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
section_title: Basing
hierarchical_section_title: 91st Division (Imperial Japanese Army) / Basing
caption_attribution_description: Location of Shumshu Island (Шумшу / 占守島), Kuril Islands, Russia
context_page_description: The 91st Division was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army. Its call sign was the Future Division. It was created 12 April 1944 in Paramushiro. The nucleus for the formation was the 1st Kuril Islands Garrison Group. It was an oversized type C security division, with its constituent brigades consisting of six infantry battalions each from July 1944. Highly unusually, the division had two artillery regiments.
context_section_description: The 91st Division was assigned to the 27th Army upon formation. The division's garrison zone was Shumshu and Shiashkotan in the Kuril Islands, garrisoning Kita Chishima Fortress, with its headquarters on Shumshu, By mid-August 1945, the 91st Division had about 8,500 troops on Shumshu and another 15,000 on neighboring Paramushiro, and also fielded 77 tanks; the division's forces on the two islands could reinforce one another as necessary.
caption: The location of Shumshu in the Kuril Islands.
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