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Tajima commanded 61
Independent Mixed Brigade on Batan
Island in the final desperate months of the war. He was hanged for
ordering the execution of three
U.S. airmen.
1894 |
|
Born |
1937
|
Colonel
|
Staff, 8 Division |
1938 |
Commander, 9 Cavalry Regiment |
|
1939 |
Chief of staff, 41 Division |
|
1941 |
Head, Special Agency, North
China Area Army |
|
1943 |
Major
general |
Commander, 3
Cavalry Brigade |
1944-8
|
Commander, 61 Independent Mixed Brigade | |
1946 |
Hanged for war crimes |
References
Axis
History Forum (accessed 2009-5-7)
Generals.dk
(accessed 2009-5-7)
Pettibone (2007)
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