The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Kumaichi Teramoto

Teramoto, Kumaichi

Lieutenant-General

* 1st of March 1889

† 15th of August 1945

(寺本熊市)

(てらもと くまいち)

Promotions

1933-08-01 Colonel
1937-11-01 Major-General
1940-08-01 Lieutenant-General

Service

1933-08-01 1934-11-16 Commanding Officer 8th Air Regiment
1934-11-16 1935-12-01 Acting Commanding Officer 2nd Air Battalion
1935-10-01 1936-12-01 Commanding Officer 16th Air Regiment
1936-12-01 1937-07-18 Staff Officer, Army Aviation Headquarters
1936-12-01 1937-07-18 Deputy Chief of Staff, Special Air Group
1937-07-18 1938-06-10 Executive Officer, Hamamatsu Army Aviation School
1938-06-10 1939-08-01 Chief of Staff, Special Air Group
1939-08-01 1940-08-01 Commandant of Hamamatsu Army Aviation School
1940-08-01 1942-04-15 General Officer Commanding 2nd Air Group
1942-04-15 1943-05-01 General Officer Commanding 2nd Air Division
1943-05-01 1943-07-20 General Officer Commanding 1st Air Army
1943-07-28 1944-08-30 General Officer Commanding 4th Air Army
1944-08-30 1944-10-01 Attached to Army Aviation Headquarters
1944-10-02 1945-04-30 Head of Credit Bureau, Army Aviation Research Headquarters
1945-04-07 1945-04-18 Acting Inspector-General of Army Aviation
1945-04-07 1945-04-18 Acting Head of Army Aviation Headquarters
1945-04-18 1945-08-16 Head of Army Aviation Headquarters
1945-08-15 Committed suicide
Picture source: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~un3k-mn/ziketu-teramoto01.jpg