The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Kenryo Sato

Sato

Kenryo, Lieutenant-General

(1895 – 1975)

(佐藤賢了)

1938
Head of Press Bureau, Imperial Headquarters
1938
- 1939
Attached to Hamamutsu Army Aviation School
1939
- 1940
Vice Chief of Staff 21st Army
1940
- 1941
Vice Chief of Staff Southern China Area Army
1941
- 1942
Chief of Military Affairs Section, Military Affairs Bureau, General Staff
1942
- 1944
Head of Military Affairs Bureau, Ministry of War
1944
- 1945
Vice Chief of Staff China Expeditionary Army, China
1945
General Officer Commanding 37th Division, Thailand
1945
Retired
1946
- 1948
Arrested and tried as an A class war criminal
1948
Condemned to life imprisonment as war criminal
1956
Released