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   Kunio Nakagawa (中川 州男, Nakagawa Kunio, 23 January 1898 – 24 November 1944) was the commander of Japanese forces which defended the island of Peleliu in the Battle of Peleliu which took place from 15 September to 27 November 1944.

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   Colonel Kunio Nakagawa, commanding the 2d Infantry Regiment, masterminded Peleliu's distinctive fortifications.

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   In a still captured from videotape, Bune Fukichi, director of the South Pacific Memorial Association of Japan, prepares their find for return to Tokyo, thus closing the book on Japanese Colonel Kunio Nakagawa.

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   Dec 24, 2021 · The Japanese commander on the island, 46-year-old Colonel Kunio Nakagawa, devoted his garrison of nearly 11,000 troops to a brilliantly conceived layered defense. He held no illusions about the mortal seriousness of his mission.

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   Oct 29, 2020 · Col. Kunio Nakagawa, the 46-year-old commanding officer of the Imperial Army’s 2nd Infantry Regiment, had led Japanese forces throughout the vicious engagement.

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   Inoue deployed most of his troops on the large island of Babelthuap, posted a battalion on Angaur, and ordered the reinforced 4th Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel Kunio Nakagawa, to defend Peleliu. Nakagawa had a keen affinity for defensive warfare.

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   Who was Kunio Nakagawa?

   • From the first moment of the Peleliu invasion, the Marines encountered powerful resistance. The Japanese commander on the island, 46-year-old Colonel Kunio Nakagawa, devoted his garrison of nearly 11,000 troops to a brilliantly conceived layered defense. He held no illusions about the mortal seriousness of his mission.

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   What did Kunio Nakagawa do in the Battle of Peleliu?

   • Kunio Nakagawa (中川 州男, Nakagawa Kunio, 23 January 1898 – 24 November 1944) was the commander of Japanese forces which defended the island of Peleliu in the Battle of Peleliu which took place from 15 September to 27 November 1944. He inflicted heavy losses on attacking U.S. Marines and held Peleliu Island for almost three months.

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   How did Nakagawa die?

   • On 24 November, Nakagawa proclaimed "Our sword is broken and we have run out of spears". He then burnt his regimental colors and performed ritual suicide. He was posthumously promoted to lieutenant general for his valor displayed on Peleliu. Nakagawa's remains were discovered in 1993.

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   Why was Nakagawa important?

   • Nakagawa had a keen affinity for defensive warfare. At his request, Japanese mining and tunneling engineers arrived to convert hundreds of fissures and crevices in the steep slopes of the Umurbrogol into a series of mutually supporting strongpoints.

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9. www.historynet.com › hell-on-peleliuHell on Peleliu, 1944 - HistoryNet

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   Aug 2, 2019 · Defending Peleliu was Colonel Kunio Nakagawa with 5,300 troops of the 14th Infantry Division, 1,100 naval infantrymen and some 4,500 other personnel, mostly Korean and Okinawan laborers, to oppose the 17,490 Ma rines under Maj. Gen. William Rupertus, commander of the 1st Marine Division, who landed on Sept. 15, 1944.