The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Yoshio Hongo

Hongo

Yoshio, Lieutenant-General

(1892 – 1962)

(本郷義夫)

1935
- 1936
Commanding Officer 12th Regiment
1936
- 1937
Attached to 1st Division
1937
Attached to Army Aviation Corps
1937
- 1938
Instructor at the Hamamatsu Army Aviation School
1938
Director of the Hamamatsu Army Aviation School
1938
- 1939
Commanding Officer 4th Air Group
1939
- 1940
Chief of Staff 12th Army
1940
- 1943
Commandant of Kumatani Army Aviation School
1943
- 1945
General Officer Commanding 62nd Division, Manchuria-Okinawa
1945
General Officer Commanding Kwantung Defence Army, Manchuria
1945
General Officer Commanding 44th Army, Manchuria
1945
- 1950
Prisoner of War, Soviet Union
1950
Released