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Katagiri, Shigeru

Date of birth:
March 18th, 1892 (Kagawa prefecture, Japan)
Date of death:
April 28th, 1944 (Wewak, Territory of New Guinea)
Mentioned on:
Yasukuni War Shrine
Nationality:
Japanese

Biography

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Chūjō (Lieutenant General)
Unit:
20th Division, Imperial Japanese Army
Awarded on:
1944

Posthumously awarded
Gunjin Izoku-kai

Sources

  • - Tanaka, Kengoro (1980). Operations of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in the Papua New Guinea Theater During World War II. Tokyo: Japan Papua New Guinea Goodwill Society.