Hayashi Yoshihide

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Hayashi Yoshihide ( Japanese 林 義 秀 ; born August 25, 1891 in Wakayama Prefecture , Japan ; † February 5, 1978 ) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army .

Life

Born in Wakayama Prefecture Hayashi graduated 1914 Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1923, the Imperial Japanese Army Academy from. First he was transferred to the Kwantung Army , where he was a member of the planning staff for the successful Chahar operation at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War .

In 1938 he was transferred to the garrison troops stationed on Taiwan , where he worked from 1940 in the research department of the Taiwan Army with the planning of the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia . His main field was warfare under tropical conditions.

After his promotion to major general in the course of 1941, Hayashi was deputy chief of staff of the 14th Regional Army until 1942 . In 1943 he became the commander of the 54th Division.

From 1943 to 1945 he was in command of the 24th Mixed Brigade in Burma . In 1945 he was promoted to Lieutenant General and was given command of the 53rd Division, which was also fighting in Burma. After Japan surrendered , he was interned in Manila until July 1953 , where the possibility of being involved in war crimes was examined .

literature

  • Frank Dorn: The Sino-Japanese War, 1937–41: From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor . MacMillan, 1974, ISBN 0-02-532200-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Mentioned in Colonel Masanobu Tsuji's biography @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / warbirdforum.com
  2. ↑ Ammenthorp, the generals of World War II
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Hayashi is the family name, Yoshihide the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Hayashi, Yoshihide
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 林義秀 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese military, General of the Imperial Japanese Army
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wakayama Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1978