The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Hatazō Adachi

Adachi, Hatazō

Lieutenant-General

* 17th of June 1890

† 10th of September 1947

(安達二十三)

(あだち はたぞう)

Promotions

1930-08-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1934-08-01 Colonel
1938-03-01 Major-General
1940-08-01 Lieutenant-General

Service

1928-12-12 1934-06-01 Staff Officer, General Staff
1929-01-18 1932-12-07 Instructor at the War College
1934-06-01 1935-08-01 Commanding Officer Kwantung Army Railroad Area Command
1935-08-01 1936-12-01 Chief of Transport Branch, 3rd Section, General Staff
1936-12-01 1938-03-01 Commanding Officer 12th Infantry Regiment
1938-03-01 1938-11-11 Attached to Kwantung Army
1938-11-11 1940-08-01 Commanding Officer 26th Infantry Brigade
1940-08-01 1941-10-15 General Officer Commanding 37th Division
1941-11-06 1942-11-09 Chief of Staff, Northern China Area Army
1942-11-09 1945-09-XX General Officer Commanding 18th Army [New Guinea]
1947-07-12 Condemned to life imprisonment as war criminal
1947-09-10 Committed suicide
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