The 20th Division was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army. Its tsūshōgō code name was the Morning Division.
Surrender of the IJA 18th Army at New Guinea
Masutaro Nakai
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Masutaro Nakai was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, commanding Japanese ground forces in the Southwest Pacific during the closing months of the war. He led a brigade-sized formation, known as
20th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
…of Hollandia at the end of April 1944, Shigeru Katagiri was killed in combat while en route from Madang to Wewak. He was replaced by Major General Masutaro Nakai, who was promoted to lieutenant general in April 1945. The surviving forces of the Nakai Detachment of the 20th division held out against the Australian…
中井増太郎