commander, 5 engagements

Battles of Takuma Nishimura

Japanese general (1889–1951)

Takuma Nishimura is recorded as a commander at 5 placed engagements in the atlas between 1940 and 1942: 5 battles across 3 present-day countries, most in Malaysia (3), Vietnam (1), Singapore (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 2,419 km apart end to end, 605 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Pacific War (5).

5 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

5 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Pacific War 5

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
1940	Japanese invasion of French Indochina	French Indochina, Vietnam		Japanese victory
14 December 1941	Battle of Gurun	Gurun, Malaysia	1,788 km S	Japanese victory
1942	Battle of Kuala Lumpur	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	326 km SE	Japanese victory
1942	Battle of Muar	Muar District, Malaysia	156 km SE	Japanese victory
1942	Battle of Kranji	Kranji, Singapore	149 km SE	Japanese 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.