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Renya Mutaguchi (牟田口 廉也, Mutaguchi Ren'ya, 7 October 1888 – 2 August 1966) was a Japanese military officer, lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and field commander of the IJA forces during the Battle of Imphal . Biography. Mutaguchi was a native of Saga Prefecture.
11. Jan. 2024 · Learn how General Renya Mutaguchi, the commander of the Japanese Fifteenth Army, planned to capture Imphal and Kohima in 1944, and how General Bill Slim, the British commander, defeated him in a decisive battle. The web page analyzes the strategic, tactical, and logistical aspects of the campaign, and provides maps and images.
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Learn about the Japanese commander who led the 1944 offensive against India's north-east frontier. Find out how he was defeated by Lieutenant-General William Slim and his Fourteenth Army.
Lieutenant-General Renya Mutaguchi was appointed to command this army in March 1943. From the moment he took command, Mutaguchi forcefully advocated an invasion of India. His motives for doing so appear to be uncertain.
Mutaguchi Renya was a man exuberantly confident of his own destiny. As if to emphasise by contrast the tragic depths to which his ambition later led him, his first two major interventions in the history of the Japanese Army were outstanding successes. It was he who exploited the Marco Polo Bridge incident in 1937, and
The Battle of Kohima broke the Japanese invasion of India, a bold strategic stroke devised by Lieutenant General Renya Mutaguchi. In March 1944, he launched the Japanese 15th Army from Burma, with the primary aim of destroying the British & Indian forces of 4 Corps, assembled at Imphal.
21. Juni 2014 · Renya Mutaguchi persuaded his Japanese superiors to allow him to attack British forces at Imphal and Kohima in hopes of preventing a British counterattack. But General Mutaguchi planned to push...
