Tadashi Sumiyoshi

Infobox Military Person
name= Tadashi Sumiyoshi
lived= February 10, 1893 – March 24, 1976
placeofbirth= Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
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allegiance= flagicon|Japan|alt Empire of Japan
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rank= Major General
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battles= World War II
Guadalcanal campaign
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laterwork=nihongo|Tadashi Sumiyoshi|住吉 正|Sumiyoshi Tadashi|extra= February 10, 1893 – March 24, 1976 was a major general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Pacific campaign in World War II.

Biography

Sumiyoshi was born in Hiroshima prefecture. He graduated from the 26th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in May 1914. He specialized in artillery operations, and went on to graduate from the 35th class of the Army Staff College in 1923.

After serving in various staff positions at the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff, Artillery School and in the Inspectorate General of Military Training, Sumiyoshi was appointed Chief of Staff of the IJA 3rd Division. As a commander of the divisional field artillery, he was sent into combat in the Second Sino-Japanese War under the Kwantung Army. In March 1941, he was promoted to major general.

With the start if the Pacific War, Sumiyoshi commanded the 17th Army's heavy artillery units along with two supporting infantry regiments during the strategically significant Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands, including the Battle for Henderson Field. Surviving the Japanese defeat on Guadalcanal, Sumiyoshi was placed in command of the artillery units in the Eastern District Army (Japan) , based in Tokyo in September, 1944. [Fuller, "Shokan", p. 200.]

References

Books

*cite book
last = Frank
first = Richard
authorlink = Richard B. Frank
year = 1990
title = Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle
publisher = Random House
location = New York
id = ISBN 0-394-58875-4
*cite book
last = Fuller
first = Richard
authorlink =
year = 1992
title = Shokan: Hirohito's Samurai
publisher = Arms and Armour Press
location = New York
id = ISBN 1-85409-151-4
*cite book
last = Griffith
first = Samuel B.
year = 1963
title = The Battle for Guadalcanal
publisher = University of Illinois Press
location = Champaign, Illinois, USA
id = ISBN 0-252-06891-2
*cite book
last = Rottman
first = Gordon L.
authorlink =
coauthors = Dr. Duncan Anderson (consultant editor)
year = 2005
title = Japanese Army in World War II: The South Pacific and New Guinea, 1942-43
publisher = Osprey
location = Oxford and New York
id = ISBN 1-84176-870-7

Web

*cite web
last = Ammentorp
first = Steen
url = http://www.generals.dk/general/Sumiyoshi/Tadashi/Japan.html
title = Sumiyoshi Tadashi, Major-General
work = The Generals of World War II
*cite web
last = Hough
first = Frank O.
coauthors = Ludwig, Verle E., and Shaw, Henry I., Jr.
url = http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/I/index.html
title = Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal
work = History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II
accessdate = 2006-05-16
*cite web
last = Shaw
first = Henry I.
year = 1992
url = http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-C-Guadalcanal/index.html
title = First Offensive: The Marine Campaign For Guadalcanal
work = Marines in World War II Commemorative Series
accessdate = 2006-07-25
*cite web
last = Zimmerman
first = John L.
year = 1949
url = http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-M-Guadalcanal.html
title = The Guadalcanal Campaign
work = Marines in World War II Historical Monograph
accessdate = 2006-07-04

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