Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
Yoshitoshi Tokugawa | |
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Lieutenant General | |
Commands held | Tokorozawa Army Aviation School, Akeno Army Aviation School |
Awards | Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class |
Baron Yoshitoshi Tokugawa (徳川 好敏, Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, 24 July 1884 – 17 April 1963) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army and one of the pioneers of military aviation in Japan. The first Japanese to obtain his pilot's licence from the Aéro-Club de France, he is credited with having made the first flight in a powered aircraft in Japan in 1910.
Biography
Family and early career
Tokugawa Yoshitoshi was born in
Tokugawa graduated from the 15th class of the
On orders of the
Later career
Tokugawa, together with fellow aviation pioneer
In 1914, with the outbreak of war, the Japanese laid siege to the German
Tokugawa led the 2nd Air Battalion, was commander of the 1st Air Regiment, and after his promotion to lieutenant general was commander of the Imperial Japanese Army Aviation Corps three times through the 1920s and 1930s. In 1928, he was created a baron in the kazoku peerage.[7]
He served as Director of the Training Department in the
He entered the active reserve in 1939 and was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1940. He was recalled to command the Imperial Army Aviation School in March 1944, before finally retiring the following year.
References
- Boyne, Walter (1997). CLASH OF WINGS: World War II in the Air. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-83915-6.
- Francillon, René J. (1979). Japanese aircraft of the Pacific War. London: Putnam. ISBN 0-85177-801-1.)
- ISBN 0-19-516035-5.
- Hata, Ikuhiko; Izawa, Yashuho; Shores, Christopher (2012). Japanese Army Fighter Aces: 1931-45. Vol. Stackpole Military History Series. London: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-1-461-75118-2.
- Stephenson, Charles (2017). The Siege of Tsingtau: The German-Japanese War 1914. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-52670-295-1.
- Yoshimura, Akira (1996). Zero Fighter. Praeger Trade. ISBN 0-275-95355-6.
External links
- The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Air Forces, Alvin Coox
- Yoshitoshi Tokugawa, early aviator
- http://www.rcooper.0catch.com/etokugaw.htm
Footnotes
- ^ Genealogy
- ^ Hata, Izawa & Shores 2012, p. 1.
- ^ Tokorozawa Aviation Museum Information Department
- ^ Francillon 1979, p. 29.
- ^ Stephenson 2017, p. 96.
- ^ Francillon 1979, p. 30.
- ^ Genealogy
- ^ [1] Time Magazine