The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Keisaku Murakami

Murakami, Keisaku

Lieutenant-General

* 16th of June 1888

† 17th of September 1948

(村上啓作)

(むらかみ けいさく)

Promotions

1933-08-01 Colonel
1937-08-02 Major-General
1939-10-02 Lieutenant-General

Service

1931-08-01 –1933-08-01 Attached to the General Staff
1933-08-01 –1934-03-05 Commanding Officer 34th Infantry Regiment
1934-03-05 –1935-08-24 Instructor at the Army Infantry School
1935-08-24 –1935-10-11 Chief of Military Administration Branch, Military Service Bureau, Ministry of War
1935-10-11 –1936-03-28 Chief of Military Affairs Branch, Military Service Bureau, Ministry of War
1936-03-28 –1936-08-01 Instructor at the War College
1936-08-01 –1938-12-01 Chief of Research Section, War College
1938-12-01 –1939-10-02 Attached to Kwantung Army
1939-10-02 –1941-06-20 General Officer Commanding 39th Division [China]
1941-09-01 –1942-12-01 Commandant of the Army Science School
1942-12-01 –1943-03-09 Attached to the General Staff
1943-03-09 –1943-12-16 Head of the Total War Research Institute
1943-12-16 –1944-08-30 Commandant of the Non-commissioned Officers' School
1944-08-30 –1944-11-22 Attached to Kwantung Army
1944-11-22 –1945-09-XX General Officer Commanding 3rd Army [Manchuria]
1945-09-XX –1948-09-17 Prisoner of War [Soviet Union]
1948-09-17 Died in Prisoner of War Camp [Soviet Union]