Matsui Takurō

Lt. General Takuro Matsui, 5th Division Commander, during the Battle of Singapore.

Matsui Takurō ( Japanese.松井 太久 郎; * December 3, 1887 in Fukuoka Prefecture ; † June 10, 1969 ) was Lieutenant General of the Imperial Japanese Army .

Matsui was the commander of the Japanese 5th Infantry Division deployed in the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War . On December 8, 1941, his division landed on beaches in Thailand on the Malay Peninsula and was then victorious in the Battle of Singapore . On May 11, 1942, Lieutenant General Yamamoto Tsutomi Matsui Takuro replaced as commander of the division.

literature

• Bill Yenne, "The Imperial Japanese Army: The Invincible Years 1941-42," Osprey Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-7820-0932-0
• Gordon L. Rottman : "Japanese Army in World War II 1941-42" Osprey Publishing, 2005, ISBN 978-1-84176-789-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rottmann, p. 17
2. ↑ Yenne, p. 96

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Matsui is the family name, Takuro the first name.