正装の服部卓四郎陸軍大佐

Colonel Takushiro Hattori,
Chief of Operations Planning Staffs,
Imperial Japanese Army
July 1941 through February 1945.

Photo above credits to/by the US ARMY PHOTOGRAPH, the Department of Defense, PENTAGON.

Takushiro HATTORI was borne on January 2, 1901, as the fourth sons of Shotoku Hattori, a SAMURAI family of the SHONAI Feuderal Clan in northern part of Japan.

Graduated from SHONAI Middle School, AKITA Pref. in 1913.
Graduated from SENDAI Prep School for Cadet (Kadettenanstalt) in SENDAI in 1915.
Graduated from the Central Prep School in Tokyo in 1920.
1922.07.28 graduated from the Military Academy, the class of 1922.
1922.10.25 appointed as Second Lieutenant, the 37th Infantry Regiment.
1925.10  promoted to Lieutenant.
1930   graduated from the Military College with Emperor's Honour Sward, the class of 1930.
1931.08  appointed as Captain.
1931.11  Army General Staffs HQ
1934.06  staff at Military Attache to France in Paris.
1935.10  observer to the Italian invasion to Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
1936.11  Army General Staffs HQ.
1937.08  appointed as Major.

1939.03.09 promoted to Lt. Colonel and chief of the Operations Planning Staffs at Kanton Army in Manchuria.  Responsible for planning of the operations in Nomonhan, assisted by Major Masanobu TSUJI.
(TSUJI is of class of 1926 of MA and Emperor's Honour Sward of the class of 1931 of MC)

1939.09.07 left Manchuria as teacher and instructor of Infantry School in Japan. (ousted for reprimand ??)

1940.06.20 appoointed as teacher and instructor at Dept. of Education and Training, and Military College, and staff at Army General Staffs HQ.

1940.10.19 section chief of Operations Planning Staffs at Army General Staffs HQ.
1941.07.01 promoted to the chief of Operations Planning Staffs at Army General Staffs HQ.
Responsible for all operations planning for the Great East Asia War (Dai Toa Sensou)
assisted by Lt. Col TSUJI.

1941.08.25 promoted to full Colonel.

1942.12.14 ousted from the Army General Staffs HQ together with TSUJI, as the result of the battle in Guadalcanal. TSUJI had never come back to the central office, where HATTORI remaind in Tokyo as an aid and a secretary to the Army Mininster. (General Hideki TOJO was the Prime Minister and concurrently Army Minister, then.)

1943.10.20 resumed to the chief of Operations Planning Staffs at Army General Staffs HQ.

1945.02.12 appointed as the commander of the 65th Infantry Regiment in central China.

1946.05  recalled by U.S. General HeadQuarter in Tokyo to summon to appear in the court of the Military Tribunal for the Far East as a witness. returned to Japan as leaving the regiment behind back in China.
Acqainted with Maj. General Charles Andrew Willoughby, the head of G-II of U.S. GHQ.

1946.12.01 Director of War History Research Bureau of the Ministry of War Repatriation No. 1.
1947.05  concurrently engaged in War History section of U.S. GHQ.
1953.02  published DAI TOA SENSO ZENSHI

1960.04.30 deceased.

(the above article added on 2009/10/30)

明治三十四(1901)年 莊内藩士族服部正徳四男として誕生。
秋田縣立莊内中學校、仙臺陸軍地方幼年學校、陸軍中央幼年學校を經て;

陸軍士官學校第三十四期。
同期生には秩父宮雍仁ちちぶのみややすひと親王殿下
西浦 進、堀場一雄、石井秋穂、赤松貞雄 等がゐる。

陸軍大學校第四十二期恩賜。
同期では西浦 進が首席で 恩賜組には
安達 久(士候33)、堀場一雄、清家武夫、荒尾興功おきかつ(士候35)がゐる。

昭和九年六月 佛蘭西駐在
昭和十年十月 埃塞俄比亞エチオピア出張
(伊太利亞軍阿比西尼亞アビシニヤ侵攻作戰觀戰武官)

昭和十四年三月 關東軍作戰班長、
辻 政信作戰参謀(士候36、陸大43恩賜)とともにノモンハン事件を作戰指導。

On July 3, Lt.Colonel Takushiro Hattori, chief of operations planning staffs of Kanton Army took off on board
DeHavilland Puss Moth DH80A for enemy's fortifications reconnaissance at low alltitude in the battle field.
His plane was shot down on the front-line, when Russian tanks dashed against the landed plane.
Anti-tank-gun-company led by First Lieutenent Sakae Kusaba defeated Russian tanks and saved Colonel's life.
Picture shows one of a deHavilland Puss Moth.
17 DH80As were supplied to the Imperial Japanese Army in 1932/1933 through Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Ltd.
Photo by courtesy of The de Havilland Moth Club.

昭和十四年七月三日、關東軍作戰主任参謀 服部卓四郎中佐はプス・モス機でコマツ臺附近の敵陣を低空偵察中
地上からの銃撃で最前線のまっただ中に不時着、たちまち蘇聯ソレン戰車群は炎上する機体に殺到した。
野砲兵第十三聯隊第三大隊第七中隊長 草塲 榮大尉(士候四十七)は三八式七十五粍野砲の直撃で敵戰車群を撃破、
中佐の危急を救った。
哈爾哈ハルハ河左岸攻勢を断念し 午後四時 右岸への撤退命令が師團司令部から發せられた日である。

昭和七年から八年にかけ十七機のプス・モス機が三井物産を經由して帝國陸軍に納入されてゐる。

 寫眞は同型のデ・ハビランド プス・モス機。
(寫眞掲載 デ・ハビランド・モス倶楽部 2006/07/01ご承認取得濟)

The pictures above by courtesy of The de Havilland Moth Club. July 1, 2006.

昭和十五年十月 参謀本部作戰班長

昭和十六年七月 大本營陸軍部作戰課長
開戰からガダルカナル攻防作戰までを全般指導。
昭和十七年十二月、ガ島作戰失敗の責任をとらされるかたちで 辻 政信作戰班長とともに更迭。

辻が以後 中央復帰が出来なかったのに比し、服部は 陸軍大臣秘書官兼副官に横滑りして中央に留まる。
昭和十八年十月 眞田穣一郎少將(士候31)の作戰部長昇格にともない 大本營陸軍部作戰課長に復歸。
ソロモンから、マリアナ、比島攻防戰を全般指導。

昭和二十年二月 歩兵第六十五聯隊長(會津若松)に轉出。
後任の作戰課長は宮崎周一第一部長(士候28)の腹心 天野正一少將(士候32、陸大43首席)である。

第十三師團麾下で湖南省衡陽に駐屯。
湘桂反轉作戰の最後衛部隊長として 見事な指揮ぶりであったと謂う。

昭和二十一年五月 極東國際軍事裁判尋問の爲、聯合國軍の指令により單身復員。
聯合國軍最高司令部参謀第二部長 ウイロビー少將の知遇をうける。

大著「大東亜戰争 全史」(全四巻 鱒書房 昭和二十八年、昭和四十年 原 書房から復刻)を執筆

昭和三十五年四月逝去、享年五十八歳

脇腹の勲章は觀戰武官として伊太利亞國から授與されたものと思はれる。

(2005/09/18 編集)

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