Tomoshige Samejima
Tomoshige Samejima | |
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8th Fleet[1] | |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Vice Admiral Baron Tomoshige Samejima (鮫島 具重, Samejima Tomoshige, April 8, 1889 – September 13, 1966), was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
Biography
Samejima was the grandson of
Aso, and Hashidate. After graduating from naval artillery and torpedo classes, he was assigned to the battleships Kashima and Kawachi followed by the destroyer Kaba. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1915. He subsequently served on the cruiser Azuma and battleship Kongō, and after a two-year tour as an instructor at the naval gunnery school from 1918–1920, he was reassigned to the battleship Mutsu. In 1921, he served as aide-de-camp to Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito and was promoted to lieutenant commander.[2]
From 1921-1923, he attended the
Prince Takamatsu Nobuhito
.
Samejima returned to sea as executive officer of the Haguro from November 1929 - November 1930. His first command was in 1931 as captain of the transport Seito.[3]
In 1931, with the
First Shanghai Incident, Samejima served on the staff of the Japanese 1st Expeditionary Fleet and was promoted to captain. He was given command of the cruisers Kitakami from 1932 to 1934,[4] Mogami from 1934 to 1935,.[5] Haguro from 1935–1936 and the battleship Nagato
from 1936 to 1937.
As
Carrier Division 2
from September 1938 to October 1939.
From November 1939 to October 1942, Samejima served as
IJN 8th Fleet.[citation needed
]
He retired from active service in 1946 and died in 1966.
References
Notes
- ^ Nishida, Materials of IJN
- ^ Nishidah. imperial Japanese Navy
- ^ [1] Pacific War Online Encyclopedia
- ^ "Imperial Cruisers".
- ^ "Imperial Cruisers".
Books
- D'Albas, Andrieu (1965). Death of a Navy: Japanese Naval Action in World War II. Devin-Adair Pub. ISBN 978-0-8159-5302-9.
- Dull, Paul S. (1978). A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-097-6.
- Dupuy, Trevor N. (1992). The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography. HarperCollins Publishers.
- Fuller, Richard (1992). Shokan: Hirohito's Samurai. London: Arms and Armor. ISBN 978-1-85409-151-2.
- ISBN 978-0-7858-1307-1.
- Prados, John (1995). Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
Web
- Budge, Kent G. "Samejima Tomoshige (1889-1966)". The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- Nishida, Hiroshi. "Materials of IJN: Samejima, Tomoshige". Imperial Japanese Navy. Archived from the original on 2012-07-09. Retrieved 2007-08-03.