Atlas of Battles

commander, 8 engagements

Battles of Hisaichi Terauchi

Battles of Hisaichi Terauchi

Japanese general (1879-1946)

Hisaichi Terauchi is recorded as a commander at 8 placed engagements in the atlas between 1938 and 1945: 5 battles and 3 campaigns across 4 present-day countries, most in Philippines (3), China (2), Solomon Islands (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 13,899 km apart end to end, 1,986 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Pacific War (6), Second Sino-Japanese War (2).

Battle of Northern and Eastern HenanNew Georgia CampaignSouth China Sea raidBattle of XuzhouPhilippines CampaignOperation CartwheelBattle of LeytePhilippines campaign of 1944–1945Battle of XuzhouPhilippines CampaignOperation CartwheelBattle of LeytePhilippines campaign of 1944–1945ŌsakaSeoulTaipeiBangkokChengdu5000 km12.883N, 135.166E
8 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1938: 2 engagements2 in 19381941: 1 engagements1943: 2 engagements2 in 19431944: 1 engagements1945: 2 engagements2 in 194519381945
8 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Northern and Eastern Henan, 1938Battle of Xuzhou, 1938Philippines Campaign, 1941New Georgia Campaign, 1943Operation Cartwheel, 1943Battle of Leyte, 1944South China Sea raid, 1945Philippines campaign of 1944–1945, 194519381945
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 2

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1938Battle of Northern and Eastern HenanHenan, People's Republic of ChinaJapanese victory
24 March 1938Battle of XuzhouXuzhou, People's Republic of China340 km EJapanese victory
1941Philippines CampaignPhilippines2,177 km SJapanese victory
20 June 1943New Georgia CampaignNew Georgia Islands, Solomon Islands4,782 km SEAllied victory
30 June 1943Operation CartwheelMelanesia, Papua New Guinea744 km NWAllied victory
17 October 1944Battle of LeyteLeyte, Philippines3,457 km NWAllied victory
1945South China Sea raidSouth China Sea1,312 km W
1945Philippines campaign of 1944–1945Philippines1,088 km EAllied victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.