Shigeru Fukudome

Shigeru Fukudome (1891-1971) was a Japanese vice admiral and Chief of Staff of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

Graduating from the Japanese Naval Academy in 1913, and later the Naval Staff College in 1926, Fukudome was assigned to the Combined Fleet serving as Chief of Staff under Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and his successor Admiral Mineichi Koga. After Koga's death in March 1944, Fukudome became commander-in-chief of the 6th Air Base and 2nd Air Fleet in Formosa. By the end of the war, Fukudome was in command of the 10th Air Fleet in Singapore where he would later be tried for war crimes. Following his release, Fukudome would act as a member of a 12-man commission to advise the Japanese government on the reorganization of the Japanese Defense Force before his death in 1971.

References

• Parrish, Thomas and S. L. A. Marshall, ed. The Simon and Schuster Encyclopedia of World War II, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.

External links

• Shigeru Fukudome at the [http;//www.ww2db.com World War II Database]