The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Kazuwo Kotani

Kotani, Kazuwo

Lieutenant-General

* 6th of December 1891

† 6th of August 1945

(小谷一雄)

(こたに かずを)

Promotions

1936-08-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1940-08-01 Colonel
1945-06-10 Major-General
1945-08-06 Lieutenant-General (Posthumously)

Service

1936-03-07 1939-03-09 Chief of Tokachi Subdivision, Army Remount Department
1939-03-09 1939-10-01 Commanding Officer 1st Cavalry Regiment
1939-10-01 1942-08-01 Commanding Officer 1st Reconnaissance Regiment
1942-08-01 1944-05-27 Attached to Army Ordnance Administrative Headquarters
1944-05-27 1945-03-31 Commanding Officer Hiroshima Regimental District
1945-03-31 1945-08-06 Staff Officer, Hiroshima Area Command
1945-08-06 Killed by the Atomic Bomb