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    Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Japanese: 栗林 忠道, 7 July 1891 – c. 26 March 1945) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, diplomat, and commanding officer...
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  • digging beach trenches with his platoon when Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrives to take command of the garrison. He saves Saigo from a beating...
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  • Japanese women's basketball player Satoshi Kuribayashi (栗林 慧 born 1939), photographer Tadamichi Kuribayashi (栗林 忠道, 1891–1945), general in the Imperial...
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    he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last...
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    In June 1944, Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi was assigned to command the defense of Iwo Jima. Kuribayashi knew that if the Americans decided...
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    Japanese Army Academy in 1914, one of his classmates was General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. He was promoted to major in 1924. Assigned to the IJA 11th Division...
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  • General Tadamichi Kuribayashi prepared a defense that broke with Japanese military doctrine. Rather than defending the beaches, Kuribayashi devised a...
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    Rich, and Yoshitaka Shindō grandson of General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. The widows of General Kuribayashi and Colonel Takeichi Nishi also attended events...
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    Kubinka Tank Museum. Some Japanese commanders, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, forbade their men from carrying out banzai charges. Indeed, the...
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  • about the Japanese perspective of the war, in particular General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Eastwood decided to film a companion piece with Letters from Iwo...
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    training to deal with them. During the Battle of Iwo Jima, General Tadamichi Kuribayashi prohibited banzai charges, as he believed they were a waste of manpower...
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    landed: 3rd Marine Regiment Colonel James A. Stuart Lieut. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, commanding Colonel Tadashi Takaishi, chief of staff 21,060 total...
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    the defense of Iwo Jima under the command of Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. On July 18, 1944, while en route from Pusan to Iwo Jima, the ship...
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  • Brigade became part of the 109th Division, commanded by General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. The 1st Mixed Brigade was stationed on Chichi-jima with the division...
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    professional drift driver, is from Shimosuwa in Nagano Prefecture. Tadamichi Kuribayashi, a general in the Imperial Japanese Army who commanded troops during...
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    and the need for a world-wide ban on nuclear weapons". General Tadamichi Kuribayashi was the overall commander of the Japanese forces during the Battle...
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    Matsunaga who was in disagreement with the garrison commander, General Tadamichi Kuribayashi about the defensive strategy to be adopted. In the days that followed...
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    1944. He was the last commander-in-chief of the Japanese fleet. Tadamichi Kuribayashi was commander of Japanese forces who was killed at the battle of...
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  • manner to John Bradley, the protagonist of Flags of Our Fathers, and Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the protagonist of Letters from Iwo Jima. Jenkins explained that...
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    Harbor, Japanese forces commanded by Sakai, and his Chief of Staff Tadamichi Kuribayashi, invaded Hong Kong. However, the subsequent Battle of Hong Kong...
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    on 20 January 1958. His mother, Takako Shindō, was a daughter of Tadamichi Kuribayashi, a general of the Imperial Japanese Army best known for having been...
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  • Section Yoshio Kozuki: assigned to the Military Affairs Bureau Tadamichi Kuribayashi: Member, Military Affairs Bureau Renya Mutaguchi: Military Affairs...
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    lightly, compared to them. For instance, Admiral Yamamoto and General Tadamichi Kuribayashi expressed concerns about the greater industrial power of the United...
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  • regiments each. During the buildup prior to the attack of Iwo-jima General Kuribayashi divided the 109th and each was built up to maximum strengths. The 109th...
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    Just think that is my incarnation. On March 17, 1945, General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the Japanese commander-in chief during the Battle of Iwo Jima,...
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  • Battle of Iwo Jima ended in American victory. Japanese general Tadamichi Kuribayashi is believed to have died on or around this date, probably killed...
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  • Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) July 7 – Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Imperial Japanese Army general (d. 1945) July 12 – Jetta Goudal...
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    Cedric Wallis  John K. Lawson † Andrew Chan Henry Hsu Takashi Sakai Tadamichi Kuribayashi Tadayoshi Sano Masaichi Niimi Strength 10,976–14,564 troops 5 planes...
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  • Iwao, Prince Kan'in Kotohito, Hajime Sugiyama, Hideki Tojo, Yasuji Okamura, Shunroku Hata, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Masaharu Homma...
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  • Lion Feuchtwanger, German author and playwright (d. 1958) 1891 – Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese general and poet (d. 1945) 1891 – Virginia Rappe, American...
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