The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Kiyoshi Kawakami

Kawakami, Kiyoshi

Lieutenant-General

* 21st of April 1897

† 8th of December 1944

(川上清志)

(かわかみ きよし)

Promotions

1939-03-09 Colonel
1943-03-01 Major-General
1944-12-08 Lieutenant-General (Posthumously)

Service

1937-08-22 1938-03-01 Chief of Staff, Shanghai Expeditionary Army
1938-03-01 1938-12-10 Staff Officer, General Staff
1938-12-10 1939-08-01 Instructor at Hamamatsu Army Aviation School
1939-08-01 1939-10-07 Attached to 2nd Air Group
1939-10-07 1940-10-01 Commanding Officer 32nd Air Squadron
1940-10-01 1941-12-05 Instructor at the War College
1941-12-XX 1942-04-15 Chief of Staff, 2nd Air Group
1942-04-15 1943-01-XX Chief of Staff, 2nd Air Division
1943-01-XX 1943-05-19 Deputy Chief of Staff, 2nd Air Army
1943-05-19 1944-06-10 Chief of Staff, 2nd Air Army
1944-06-10 1944-06-20 Commandant of Hamamatsu Army Aviation School
1944-06-20 1944-11-27 General Officer Commanding Hamamatsu Air Training Division
1944-11-27 1944-12-08 Chief of Staff, 3rd Air Army
1944-12-08 Killed in Action [Malayan Sea]