Tomoyuki Yamashita Military person

Tomoyuki Yamashita (山下 奉文, Yamashita Tomoyuki, November 8, 1885 – February 23, 1946) was an Imperial Japanese Army general during World War II. He was most famous for conquering the British possessions of Malaya and Singapore.

Personal facts

Tomoyuki Yamashita
Alias (AKA)山下 奉文
Birth dateNovember 08, 1885
Birth place
Kōchi Prefecture , Shikoku
Date of deathFebruary 23, 1946
Place of death
Philippines , Los Baños Laguna

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Military person

award
Order of the Rising Sun
Order of the Golden Kite
military operations
Second Sino-Japanese War
Pacific War
military branch
Imperial Japanese Army
military command
25th Army
14th Area Army
1st Area Army
service start1905
service end1945

Topical connections

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Tomoyuki Yamashita on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://japanfocus.org/-Yuki-TANAKA/1753
  2. http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=A32
  3. http://ww2db.com/photo.php?source=all&color=all&list=search&foreigntype=P&foreigntype_id=32
  4. http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/WCC/Yamashita1.htm
  5. http://www.genealogycenter.info/military/wwii/search_yamashita.php
  6. http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/subjects/history/waimilhist/1998/waimilhist.html
  7. http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/subjects/history/waimilhist/1998/yamashita.html