Ičiki, Kijonao

Ičiki, Kijonao

Born sa in prefektúre Shizuoka, and in 1916, the terminating vojenskú the academy is his life. Subsequently pôsobí ako inštruktor to Military school pechoty in town Čhiba.


Marco Polo Incident
1934 sa becomes major and is of the year 1936 pridelený to Chinese posádkovej the army, as the commander of battalion 1. pešieho regiment. 07.07.1937 japanese armada has pursued nočné cvičenie pričom perform fire mieriac on the air ciele. Chinese armada sa domnievala that prichádza the japanese attack and went off on japonskú unit niekolko delostreleckých striel, but neúćinných. One japanese soldier the other day chýbal, and his company commander, Kijonao Ičiki, sa domnieval him Číňania captured. Nariadil ihneď attack on Wanping, the sa began the first akutočná battle of the second Sino-japanese war (known as the the Incident on the bridge of Marco Polo).


Subsequently is called to Japan, where in rokoch 1938-1940 zastáva post inštruktora in schools training špeciliazovaných zariadení.


After vzpuknutí the war in the pacific, in 1941, is Ičiki promoted to colonel and he's zverené velenie 28. pešieho regiment within the 7. divízie. Regiment of sil 3.000 mužov has a role obsadenie island Midway. However, operácia is cancelled after the failure japanese námornej battle in júny 1942.


Guadalcanal
In August 1942, the regiment is presunutý under velenie 17. army on the južný front and is stationed in the , Truk, Carolina. After the landing of the allied forces on the island Guadalcanal, Šalamúnove islands, Ičiki along with časťou 28. pešieho regiment (2. the battalion, with delostrelectvom and ženistami and is referred to as the "Ičikův oddiel") sa participates in the campaign. Gets behind the role of znovuobsadiť airport Henderson and vytlačiť Američanov of the island.
19.08.1942 6 torpédoborcov prepravuje Ičikiho and 916 mužov of Truku and vyloďujú ich Taivu Point on the island, Guadalcanal. Ičiki he has orders to wait on vytvorenom the beachhead, the arrival of the rest of his regiment, but after the landing Ičiki see an empty beach and domieva sa that the island is weak bránený. After the break zhodnotení situácie sa decides ponechať 125 mužov ako backup and vykonať nočný frontálny attack on pozície Američanov. However, Ičiki nevie, that the navy pešiaci know about his landing, and, in time, took defensive pozície. In the battle of Tenaru, that sa rozpútala 21.08.1942 Ičikiho unit utrpia very ťažké straty.


Administration of Ichikiho death sa rôznia, on the one hand, those in favor of the administration that padol during combat, on the other hand, that committed suicide after ponižujúcej porážke. Posthumously gets hosdnosť major general.

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