The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Hiroshi Yokō

Yokō, Hiroshi

Lieutenant-General

* 21st of February 1892

† 16th of April 1945

(横尾 闊)

(よこお ひろし)

Promotions

1934-08-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1939-03-09 Colonel
1943-03-01 Major-General
1945-04-16 Lieutenant-General (Posthumously)

Service

1934-08-01 1937-09-11 Instructor at the Army Field Artillery School
1934-08-01 1937-09-11 Staff Officer, Research Section, Army Field Artillery School
1937-09-11 1939-12-10 Commanding Officer 19th Mountain Artillery Regiment
1939-12-10 1943-03-01 Commanding Officer 10th Field Artillery Regiment
1943-03-01 1944-07-28 Chief of Ordnance Section, 14th Army
1944-07-28 1944-11-30 Chief of Ordnance Section, 14th Area Army
1944-11-30 1945-04-16 Attached to 14th Area Army (wounded and hospitalized)
1945-04-16 Died of his wound