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堺吉嗣

— Imperial Japanese Army

Commander of the 16th Infantry Regiment. Killed in action during the general offensive on Guadalcanal.

The book states that he fought hard against US forces right up until the withdrawal from Guadalcanal

Unit: 歩兵第一六連隊

No fragment for this person is in the Archive yet.

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Photograph: none yet. Unless a person was reported on during the war, almost no portrait survives that is free to use ⚪️
Afterwards: how he lived after the war is not written in this source.

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Source: The Regimental Histories of the Pacific War, p.47

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