The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Kensaku Oda

Oda, Kensaku

Lieutenant-General

* 4th of April 1888

† 21st of January 1943

(小田健作)

(おだ けんさく)

Promotions

1937-08-01 Colonel
1940-08-01 Major-General
1943-01-21 Lieutenant-General (Posthumously)

Service

1935-08-01 1938-03-10 Commanding Officer 2nd Independent Defence Battalion
1938-08-01 1940-08-01 Commanding Officer 50th Infantry Regiment
1940-08-01 1941-09-01 Commanding Officer Infantry Group, 26th Division
1941-09-01 1942-12-14 Commandant of Toyohashi Reserve Officers' Cadet School
1941-09-01 1942-10-15 Commandant of Toyohashi Army Training School
1942-12-14 1943-01-21 General Officer Commanding 5th South Seas Detachment [New Guinea]
1943-01-21 Suicide