Unit Ei 1644

<p>Unit Ei 1644  — also known as Unit 1644, Detachment Ei 1644, Detachment Ei, Detachment Tama,: 310–311  The Nanking Detachment, or simply Unit Ei, was a Japanese laboratory and <a href="/facts/Biological_warfare/hLnbu8Sd">biological warfare</a> facility under control of the <a href="/facts/Epidemic_Prevention_and_Water_Purification_Department/vd7zwQje">Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department</a>. It was established in 1939 in Japanese-occupied <a href="/facts/Nanjing/WennCVWt">Nanjing</a> as a satellite unit of <a href="/facts/Unit_731/wvEMHXGA">Unit 731</a>. It had 12 branches and employed about 1,500 men.: 307 
</p><p>During the <a href="/facts/Second_Sino-Japanese_War/QgPmgfHa">Second Sino-Japanese War</a>, Unit Ei engaged in "producing on a mass scale lethal bacteria to be used as weapons against the Chinese forces and civilian population" and "took a direct
part in employing bacteriological weapons against the Chinese forces and local inhabitants during the military operations of the Japanese troops," according to its Chief, <a href="/facts/Shunji_Sato/B56ogzqj">Shunji Sato</a>.: 73 
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Unit Ei 1644