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Jinichi Kusaka
Vice Admiral Kusaka Jinichi (1940-45)
Native name
草鹿 任一
Born December 7, 1888Ishikawa Prefecture , Japan Died August 24, 1972(1972-08-24) (aged 83 ) [1] Allegiance Empire of Japan Service/ Imperial Japanese Navy Years of service 1909–1945 Rank Vice Admiral Commands held Kitakami Fusō 1st Carrier Division , Naval Education Bureau, Naval Academy , 11th Air Fleet , Southeast Area Fleet Battles/wars
Guadalcanal campaign
Solomon Islands campaign
Jinichi Kusaka (草鹿 任一 Kusaka Jin'ichi , was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II . Fellow Admiral Ryūnosuke Kusaka was his cousin.
Biography [ edit ]
A native of Ishikawa Prefecture , Kusaka graduated from the 37th class of the Imperial Japanese Navy Academy , ranked 21st in a class of 179 cadets. He served as midshipman on the cruisers Soya Chiyoda ensign was assigned to the cruiser Tokiwa battleship Aki lieutenant during World War I , he served on the cruiser Asama Kashima destroyer Hamakaze Naval Staff College , emerging in 1921 as a lieutenant commander . He was assigned to the battleship Hiei Yamashiro Nagato
After Kusaka's promotion to captain on 1 December 1930, he was sent overseas to the United States and Europe for one year. After his return, he received his first command, the cruiser Kitakami Fusō rear admiral , and became commandant of the Naval Gunnery School. On 15 November 1940, he was promoted to vice admiral .
At the beginning of the Pacific War , Kusaka commanded the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy . On 28 September 1942, he took command of the 11th Air Fleet located at the major Japanese base of Rabaul on New Britain in the South Pacific .[2] Guadalcanal campaign Kusaka's air units battled the Allied Cactus Air Force for control of the air around Guadalcanal , a battle that the Allied air forces eventually won. The 11th Air Fleet also supported Japanese military operations in the New Guinea Campaign .
Kusaka (center) with Combined Fleet Commander Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (left) at Rabaul in April 1943 during Operation I-Go shortly before Yamamoto's death.
On 24 December 1942, all naval forces in New Guinea and Solomon Islands area were combined into the newly designated Southeast Area Fleet with Kusaka in command. As commander, Kusaka directed the employment of naval ships and combat personnel involved in the fighting against Allied forces advancing up the Solomon Islands chain and New Guinea and New Britain towards Rabaul.[3]
On 6 September 1945, Kusaka, acting as the senior officer for Japanese naval forces in the Rabaul area, along with General Hitoshi Imamura , the senior Imperial Japanese Army commander for the area, surrendered Rabaul to Allied forces.[4]
References [ edit ]
^ Nishida, Hiroshi, Imperial Japanese Navy
^ Frank, Guadalcanal , p. 288.
^ Frank, p. 498.
^ Sakaida, Siege of Rabaul , p. 87-88.
Altobello, Brian (2000). Into the Shadows Furious . Presidio Press. ISBN 0-89141-717-6
Bergerud, Eric M. (2000). Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific . Boulder, CO, USA: Westview Press. ISBN 0-8133-3869-7
D'Albas, Andrieu (1965). Death of a Navy: Japanese Naval Action in World War II . Devin-Adair Pub. ISBN 0-8159-5302-X
Frank, Richard B. (1990). Guadalcanal : The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle Penguin Group . ISBN 0-14-016561-4
Gailey, Harry A. (1991). Bougainville, 1943-1945: The Forgotten Campaign . Lexington, Kentucky, USA: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-9047-9 [1 ]
Miller, Thomas G. (1969). Cactus Air Force . Admiral Nimitz Foundation. ISBN 0-934841-17-9
Morison, Samuel Eliot (1958). The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942 – February 1943 , vol. 5 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II Little, Brown and Company . ISBN 0-316-58305-7 [2 ]
Morison, Samuel Eliot (1958). Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier , vol. 6 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II ISBN 0-7858-1307-1
Sakaida, Henry (1996). The Siege of Rabaul . St. Paul, MN, USA: Phalanx. ISBN 1-883809-09-6
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