Harukichi Hyakutake was a Japanese Imperial Army officer who commanded Japanese forces during the Pacific War. He mainly commanded the 17th Army, headquartered at Rabaul in the Southwest Pacific, and was involved in the New Guinea, Guadalcanal, and Solomon Islands campaigns. He suffered a stroke during the Japanese Army's defense of Bougainville in 1944 and was relieved of his duties. However, he survived the war, dying at a later date. Space Radar Image of Rabaul Volcano Rabaul was the capital of East New Britain province, on New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea until 1994. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... The Imperial Japanese Army (: 大日本å¸åœ‹é™¸è» Shinjitai: 大日本å¸å›½é™¸è» Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun) was the official ground based armed force of Japan from 1867 to 1945 when it was Imperial Japan. ... Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... The New Guinea campaign was one of the major military campaigns of World War II. Fighting in the Australian mandated Territory of New Guinea (the north-eastern part of the island of New Guinea and surrounding islands) and Dutch New Guinea, between Allied and Japanese forces, commenced with the Japanese... Combatants United States Australia New Zealand United Kingdom Tonga[1] Fiji Solomon Islands[2] Empire of Japan Commanders Robert Ghormley William Halsey, Jr. ... The Solomon Islands Campaign was a large series of battles that occurred in the Pacific Theater of World War II. This was the first large-scale campaign in the War in the Pacific, and the victories achieved by the Americans in the battles of this campaign helped secure vital bases... The Imperial Japanese Army (大日本帝国陸軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun) was in existence from the Meiji Reformation to the end of World War II. It was created to replace the traditional Japanese samurai with a modern Western-style conscript army. ... Combatants Republic of China U.S.A. (from 1941) U.K. (from 1941) Australia (1941) Netherlands (1941) New Zealand (1941) Canada (1941) U.S.S.R. (from 1945) Empire of Japan Commanders Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin (from 1945) Hideki Tojo The Pacific War was... Space Radar Image of Rabaul Volcano Rabaul was the capital of East New Britain province, on New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea until 1994. ... The South West Pacific was one of two theatres of World War II in the Pacific region, between 1942 and 1945. ... Combatants United States Australia New Zealand United Kingdom Tonga[1] Fiji Solomon Islands[2] Empire of Japan Commanders Robert Ghormley William Halsey, Jr. ... The Solomon Islands Campaign was a large series of battles that occurred in the Pacific Theater of World War II. This was the first large-scale campaign in the War in the Pacific, and the victories achieved by the Americans in the battles of this campaign helped secure vital bases...
Gailey, Harry A. (1991). Bougainville, 1943-1945: The Forgotten Campaign. Lexington, Kentucky, USA: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-9047-9.- neutral review of this book here:[1]
Richard B. Frank (born 1947 in Kansas) is an American lawyer and military historian. ...
Hyakutake attacked and was slaughtered on the American defences.
On December 9, the battle and jungle weary 1st Marine Division was withdrawn and in its place were the Americal Division and the 25th Division, both army formations, and the 2nd Marine Division for a total of 50,000 men under Major-General Alexander Patch.
Hyakutake had less than half that number and a critical shortage of supplies left his men weak and sick.
Meanwhile, Hyakutake and his flunkies are trying to set up an army headquarters amid Guadalcanal's stinking jungles, in a valley two miles west of Kokumbona.
As Hyakutake is briefed on this disaster, he sees survivors of the Bloody Ridge battle staggering back through the jungle.
Hyakutake, gloomy, eats breakfast, and receives more bad news - a report that most of the rice unloaded the night before was stolen by the volunteer coolies, all survivors of Bloody Ridge.
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