The Official AHF WW2 in the Pacific & Asia quiz thread

[Peter H]

Hopefully this will be as successful as the other quizes on the forum.

The first one to post the correct answer then posts a new question and so on.

Peter

[Peter H]

Name this Japanese Colonel who committed suicide on Guadalcanal after is unit suffered defeat?He was also involved in the Marco Polo Bridge incident,in China,in 1937.

[Goldfish]

Colonel Kiyano (also sometimes spelled Kiyanao) Ichiki (also sometimes romanized Ikki).

[Peter H]

Goldfish,
Correct!

From Kogun:The Japanese Army in the Pacific War:

ICHIKI, Kiyonao: 2dLt (Infantry), December 1916; attached to Army Infantry School, February 1935; Instructor at same, April 1935; do., LtCol, March 1938; Member, Research Branch, Toyama Army School, September 1939; Instructor, Army Infantry School, August 1940; Colonel, March 1941; Regimental Commander, 28th Infantry, July 1941; killed in action on Guadalcanal (MajGen),August 1942.

More on the Ichiki Detachment here:

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/GuadC/gc-04.htm

The 17th Army, commanded by Lt. Gen. Harukichi Hyakutake, had decided to retake the Lunga area. Hyakutake planned to use initially a force composed of part of the 28th Infantry of the 7th Division and the Yokosuka Special Naval Landing Forces, and later the 35th Brigade-about 6,000 troops in all. The 2d Battalion, 28th Infantry, had been formed into a 2,000-man combat team of infantry, artillery, and engineers known as the Ichiki Force, after its commander, Col. Kiyono Ichiki. This force had been attached to the Navy to make the projected landing on Midway. When the Japanese carrier fleet was defeated, the Ichiki Force had sailed for Guam. On 7 August, when the force was at sea bound for Japan, it received orders to reverse its course. Landing at Truk on 12 August, it was attached to the 35th Brigade, which was then in the Palau Islands. This brigade, commanded by Maj. Gen. Kiyotake Kawaguchi, was usually called the Kawaguchi Force . The first echelon, about 1,000 men of the Ichiki Force, including Colonel Ichiki, sailed for Guadalcanal via Rabaul. They made the trip from Rabaul to Guadalcanal on the "Tokyo Express," the Japanese destroyers and cruisers which operated at night among the islands. This echelon landed at Taivu Point about 118 August, at approximately the same time that 500 men of the Yokosuka 5th Special Naval Landing Force landed at Kokumbona."

Your turn.

Regards,
Peter

[Goldfish]

Okay, what military organization in China flew a pennant with the markings ???!!!*** as its unit flag and what did it mean?

[Peter H]

A Chinese symbol?

[Goldfish]

No, the pennant had the actual symbols ???!!!*** in red on white. It was one of the organizations' co-commander's unofficial personal pennant and when this organization was formed, he made it the organization's pennant.

[Peter H]

The terms 'organisation' and 'co-commanders' might suggest a group like Unit731?

[Goldfish]

This organization was accused of some nefarious activity, but nothing on the level of Unit 731.

[Windward]

This is linedraw of an IJN capital warship, and guess which class it was!

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[Windward]

Sorry I forgot the rule of this quiz game.

Any hint? Was it a naval or an army unit?

[Goldfish]

It was partly Naval.

[Grünherz]

This is linedraw of an IJN capital warship, and guess which class it was!

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Out of order and probably wrong... maybe "13 class" (projected)?
Sorry that I forgot about the ???!!!*** subject. Back to it, of course! (And I don't know).
Tom

[Goldfish]

Hint: This was an Allied organization operating in China that was partly Naval, but included very few ships of its own.

[Windward]

My God~~ an Allied org... I'm looking for that pennant among flags of IJN and IJA units..

Cdr Milton Miles and his SACO? The Sino-American Cooperative Organization? I said in another thread before that you must be an ethnic Chinese!~