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Originally Posted by Matt Wiser
The battalion he led was 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment: Ichiki was the Regimental commander. His regimental command group was with the advance echelon, and thus had the regimental colors. The rest of the 28th Infantry were to follow up a week later, but Ichiki's "spirit" got the better of him and this battalion was wiped out as a result.
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Hmm, while the 28th Infantry Regiment did fight on Guadalcanal, Ichiki's 2nd Echleon was simply the support troops of the 2nd Battalion and a detachment from the regimental gun company. An intresting footnote is that there is a report of the 28th burning its regimental colors some time later. If that report is true, and if the JSDF official history is true and the regimental colors were burned, then either the regiment had two sets of colors or somebody is mistaken somewhere. And lots of luck trying to nail down which!
Myself, I believe that some sort of color was burned, the real question is was this the color presented by the Emperor himself or some kind of "field" color?