The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Genzō Yanagida

Yanagida, Genzō

Lieutenant-General

* 3rd of January 1890

† 1st of October 1952

(柳田元三)

(やなぎだ げんぞう)

Promotions

1937-08-02 Colonel
1939-08-01 Major-General
1942-12-01 Lieutenant-General

Service

1934-03-05 1935-08-01 Staff Officer, Kwantung Army
1935-08-01 1936-08-01 Senior Staff Officer, Recruiting Branch, Military Service Bureau, Ministry of War
1936-08-01 1937-08-02 Staff Officer, Imperial Guards Division
1937-08-02 1938-07-15 Chief of Recruiting Branch, Personnel Bureau, Ministry of War
1938-07-15 1939-08-01 Commanding Officer 1st Infantry Regiment
1939-08-01 1940-03-09 Deputy Chief of Staff, 11th Army
1940-03-09 1941-08-01 Chief of Harbin Special Agency [Manchuria] 01.08.40-11.03.43: Chief of Intelligence Section, Kwantung Army
1943-03-11 1944-05-16 General Officer Commanding 33rd Division [Burma]
1944-05-16 1944-06-22 Attached to the General Staff
1944-06-22 Retired
1944-06-23 Recalled
1944-06-23 1945-05-30 Commandant of Ryojun (Port Arthur) Fortress
1945-05-30 1945-09-XX Commanding Officer Kwantung Defence Command
1945-09-XX 1947-10-01 Prisoner of War [Soviet union]
1947-10-01 Died in a Prisoner of War Camp [Soviet Union]