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Soemu Toyoda (豊田 副武,
Toyoda Soemu, 22 May 1885 – 22
September 1957) was an
admiral in the
Imperial ****anese Navy in
World War II.
Toyoda was born in what...
- the Army
General Staff, Yoshijirō Umezu.
Chief of the Navy
General Staff,
Soemu Toyoda. From
November 1937 onward,
following Emperor Shōwa's order, the...
- was not
announced until May 1944 when he was
formally replaced by
Admiral Soemu Toyoda. From page 20 of I Was A Kamikaze, by
Ryuji Nagat****:
After describing...
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Yamamoto was
succeeded by
Admiral Mineichi Koga (1943–44) and
Admiral Soemu Toyoda (1944–45). The
General Staff (参謀本部, Sanbō Honbu) of the Imperial...
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cabinet that
Hiroshima was
indeed destro**** by a
nuclear weapon.
Admiral Soemu Toyoda, the
Chief of the
Naval General Staff,
estimated that no more than...
- commander. The
American options were
apparent to the IJN.
Combined Fleet Chief Soemu Toyoda prepared four "victory" plans: Shō-Gō 1 (捷１号作戦, Shō ichigō sakusen)...
- declaration. War
Minister Korechika Anami,
General Yoshijirō Umezu, and
Admiral Soemu Toyoda opposed accepting the declaration,
argued that the
terms were "too...
- 1944 but
resigned in May 1945 and was
replaced by an Ōita
native Toyoda Soemu in an
attempt to
soften down the
Imperial ****anese Army's Ōita-born leadership...
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Philippine Sea in June. A new commander-in-chief of the
Combined Fleet,
Admiral Soemu Toyoda, was appointed, and he
finalized the ****anese
plans known as Plan...
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infantry Division, the 106th, to land on
Saipan on 20 June. Once
Admiral Soemu Toyoda, Commander-in-Chief of the
Combined Fleet, was
certain that Saipan...
