The 49th Division was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army. Its call sign was the Wolf Division.
Lieutenant General Takehara, commander of the Japanese 49th Division, hands his sword to Major General Arthur W Crowther, DSO, commander of the 17th Indian Division, at Thaton, north of Moulmein, Burma, 1945
The Burma Area Army was one of fifteen area armies of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II that specialized in banzai charge, combined arms, jungle warfare, and maneuver warfare.
Japanese troops firing a heavy machine gun