The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of General Heitaro Kimura

Kimura

Heitaro, General

(1888 – 1948)

(木村兵太郎)

1928
- 1929
Attached to the Inspectorate of Artillery
1929
Instructor at the Field Artillery School
1929
Attached to the General Staff
1929
- 1931
Member of the Japanese Delegation to the London Disarmament Conference
1931
- 1932
Commanding Officer 22nd Artillery Regiment
1932
- 1934
Instructor at the Field Artillery School
1934
- 1935
Attached to the Coastal Artillery School
1935
- 1936
Chief of Control Section, Economic Mobilization Bureau, Ministry of War
1936
- 1939
Head of Ordnance Bureau, Ministry of War
1937
- 1939
Head of Field Ordnance, Imperial Headquarters
1939
- 1940
General Officer Commanding 32nd Division
1940
- 1941
Chief of Staff Kwantung Army, Manchuria
1941
- 1943
Vice-Minister of War
1943
- 1944
Member of the Supreme War Council
1944
- 1945
Commander in Chief Burma Area Army
1948
Condemned to death and hanged as war criminal
Picture source: Courtesy of Paul Godley