The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Yoshio Shinozuka

Shinozuka, Yoshio

Lieutenant-General

* 15th of September 1884

† 17th of September 1945

(篠塚義男)

(しのづか よしお)

Promotions

1924-08-20 Lieutenant-Colonel
1928-08-10 Colonel
1933-03-18 Major-General
1936-12-01 Lieutenant-General

Service

1924-11-29 1927-02-22 Military Attaché to Austria & Hungary
1927-02-22 1928-08-10 Attached to 3rd Imperial Guards Regiment
1928-08-10 1931-08-01 Chief of General Affairs Branch, General Affairs Section, General Staff
1931-08-01 1932-08-08 Commanding Officer 1st Infantry Regiment
1932-08-08 1933-03-18 Instructor at the Army Infantry School
1933-03-18 1933-08-XX Attached to the Army Infantry School
1933-08-18 1934-06-04 Comptroller, Economic Mobilization Bureau, Ministry of War
1934-06-04 1935-08-01 Head of Planning Bureau, Cabinet Resources Department
1935-08-01 1936-03-07 Commanding Officer 1st Imperial Guards Brigade
1936-03-07 1937-03-01 Commanding Officer 1st Independent Mixed Brigade
1937-03-01 1938-06-18 Commandant of the Military Academy
1938-06-18 1939-09-07 General Officer Commanding 10th Division
1939-09-07 1941-06-20 General Officer Commanding 1st Army [China]
1941-06-20 1942-04-01 Commandant of the Military Academy
1941-06-20 1942-04-01 Member of the Supreme War Council
1942-06-02 Retired
1945-09-17 Committed suicide