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Sawada commanded 13 Army in central China when war broke out. His army
fought in the Chekiang-Kiangsi campaign of May-September 1942. This
campaign was largely a vengeance
operation against those areas through which the Doolittle raiders had passed
on their way to Chungking and
safety, and has been estimated as costing the lives of a quarter
million Chinese civilians.
Sawada was sentenced to five years'
imprisonment at Shanghai on 15
April 1946 for failing to extend prisoner of war status to the eight captured Doolittle raiders. The relatively lenient sentence took into account Sawada's protest to Hata that the death sentences given three of the prisoners were too severe.
| 1887
|
Born |
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| 1926 |
Colonel
|
Instructor, War College |
| 1928 |
Head, Halpin Special Agency |
|
| 1931 |
Commander, 24 Field Artillery Regiment |
|
| 1933 |
Instructor, War College |
|
| 1934 |
Chief of staff, Imperial Guards
Division |
|
| 1935 |
Major
general |
Commander, 1 Field Artillery
Brigade |
| 1935 |
Military attache, Poland |
|
| 1938 |
General Staff |
|
| 1938 |
Lieutenant
general |
Commander, 4 Division |
| 1939-10-2 |
Vice chief of the General Staff |
|
| 1940-12-2 |
Commander, 13 Army | |
| 1942-10-8 |
Retires |
|
| 1943 |
Consultant to Military Research
Committee |
|
| 1943 |
Recalled to active duty as
member of Military Research Committee |
|
| 1945 |
Arrested as war criminal |
|
| 1946 |
Sentenced to 5 years'
imprisonment |
|
| 1950 |
Released |
|
| 1980 |
Dies |
References
Generals.dk (accessed 2008-4-3)
"Trial of Lieutenant-General Shigeru Sawada And Three Others" (1948; accessed 2012-6-23)
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