The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Shigeru Sawada

Sawada, Shigeru

Lieutenant-General

* 29th of March 1887

† 1st of December 1980

(沢田 茂)

(さわだ しげる)

Promotions

1930-08-01 Colonel
1935-03-15 Major-General
1938-03-01 Lieutenant-General 10.12.26-22.11.28: Instructor at the War College

Service

1928-11-22 1931-08-01 Chief of Harbin Special Agency [Manchuria]
1931-08-01 1933-03-18 Commanding Officer 24th Field Artillery Regiment
1933-03-18 1934-03-05 Instructor at the War College
1934-03-05 1935-03-15 Chief of Staff, Imperial Guards Division
1935-03-15 1935-12-02 Commanding Officer 1st Field Artillery Brigade
1935-12-02 1938-03-01 Military Attaché to Poland
1938-03-01 1938-07-15 Attached to the General Staff
1938-07-15 1939-09-23 General Officer Commanding 4th Division
1939-09-23 1939-10-02 Attached to the General Staff
1939-10-02 1940-11-15 Vice Chief of the General Staff
1940-11-15 1940-12-02 Attached to the General Staff
1940-12-02 1942-10-08 General Officer Commanding 13th Arm [China]
1942-10-08 1942-11-02 Attached to the General Staff
1942-11-02 Retired
1943-04-XX Part-time attached to the General Staff as Member of the Military Research Committee
1943-11-XX Recalled
1943-11-XX 1945-10-XX Member of the Military Research Committee, General Staff
1945-10-XX 1946-02-XX Arrested as suspected war criminal 00.02.46: Condemned to 5 years imprisonment as war criminal
1950-01-XX Released
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