Tadashi Sumiyoshi

Tadashi Sumiyoshi (住吉 正) was a major general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Pacific campaign in World War II.

Biography
Sumiyoshi was born in Hiroshima prefecture. He graduated from the 26th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in May 1914. He specialized in artillery operations, and went on to graduate from the 35th class of the Army Staff College in 1923.

After serving in various staff positions at the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff, Artillery School and in the Inspectorate General of Military Training, Sumiyoshi was appointed Chief of Staff of the IJA 3rd Division. As a commander of the divisional field artillery, he was sent into combat in the Second Sino-Japanese War under the Kwantung Army. In March 1941, he was promoted to major general.

With the start if the Pacific War, Sumiyoshi commanded the 17th Army's heavy artillery units along with two supporting infantry regiments during the strategically significant Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands, including the Battle for Henderson Field. Surviving the Japanese defeat on Guadalcanal, Sumiyoshi was placed in command of the artillery units in the Eastern District Army (Japan), based in Tokyo in September, 1944.