Masatane Kanda
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Masatane Kanda (神田 正種, Kanda Masatane, April 24, 1890 – January 15, 1983), was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
Biography
A native of
Imperial Japanese Army General Staff, where he was (despite his fluency in the Russian language) in charge of collecting and analyzing military intelligence reports from Europe and North America.[1]
With the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, he was assigned briefly to be commander of the IJA 45th Infantry Regiment, but soon returned to a staff position as Chief of the 1st Section (and later Chief of the 1st Bureau) of the powerful Inspectorate General of Military Training.[2]
In 1941, he was promoted to
Bougainville campaign, and (as lieutenant general) later took command of the 17th Army after Hyakutake suffered a stroke in 1945. Kanda surrendered Japanese forces on Bougainville to Allied
commanders on 8 September 1945.
After the war, Kanda was tried and convicted of
war crimes by the Allies, sentenced to 14 years imprisonment, and began his sentence in 1948. He served four years in prison, and was released in 1952. He died in 1983.[3]
References
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Books
- Fuller, Richard (1992). Shokan: Hirohito's Samurai. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 1-85409-151-4.
- Gailey, Harry A. (1991). Bougainville, 1943-1945: The Forgotten Campaign. Lexington, Kentucky, USA: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-9047-9.
- Hayashi, Saburo (1959). Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War. Marine Corps. Association. ASIN B000ID3YRK.
- Long, Gavin (1963). Volume VII – The Final Campaigns. Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. Archived from the original on 2006-08-27. Retrieved 2006-11-02.
- Rottman, Gordon L. (2005). Duncan Anderson (ed.). Japanese Army in World War II: The South Pacific and New Guinea, 1942–43. Oxford and New York: Osprey. ISBN 1-84176-870-7.
External links
- Ammentorp, Steen. "Kanda Masatane, Lieutenant-General (1890–1983)".
- Australian Department of Veteran's Affairs. "In the Shadows: Bougainville". Archived from the original on 2006-09-25. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- Budge, Kent. "Kanda Masatane". Pacific War Online Encyclopedia.
- James, Karl (2005). "The Final Campaigns: Bougainville 1944–1945" (PDF). University of Wollongong. Archived from the original (PhD thesis) on 2006-09-17.
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