Mako Guard District
The Mako Guard District (
History
[edit]The Guard Districts (
The port of Mako in the Pescadores Islands was an area with a long association with the Imperial Japanese Navy, having been the first portion of Taiwan captured during the Japanese invasion of Taiwan in the First Sino-Japanese War. Mako was designated a third echelon naval port, or yokobu (
Mako was upgraded to full Guard District status on 20 November 1941, and served as a staging group and supply base for the invasion of the Philippines and other naval operations in Southeast Asia after the start of the Pacific War.[3] In 1943, the base was relocated to Takao on the Taiwanese mainland.
Order of Battle at time of the attack on Pearl Harbor
[edit]- Mako Guard District
- PG Akitsu Maru
- PG Chiyo Maru
- PG Chohakusan Maru
- AK Kure Maru No.5
- Mako Air Group
- 3x Aichi D1A Susie
- Minesweeper Division 44
- Minesweeper Division 45
- Minesweeper Division 46
List of Commanders
[edit]Commanding Officer
[edit]- Vice-Admiral Hikonojō Kamimura (4 July 1901 – 23 September 1903)
- Vice-Admiral Tomomichi Onomoto (23 September 1903 – 13 June 1905)
- Vice-Admiral Nagataka Uemura (13 June 1905 – 20 December 1905)
- Vice-Admiral Baron Masaaki Hashimoto (20 December 1905 – 22 November 1906)
- Vice-Admiral Baron Tokioki Nashiba (22 November 1906 – 12 March 1907)
- Vice-Admiral Baron Yunoshin Kano (12 March 1907 – 1 December 1909)
- Vice-Admiral Chikakata Tamari (1 December 1909 – 1 December 1910)
- Vice-Admiral Hikojiro Ijichi (1 December 1910 – 1 December 1911)
- Vice-Admiral Kotaro Koizumi (1 December 1911 – 14 April 1913)
- Vice-Admiral Baron Shinrokuro Nishi (14 April 1913 – 1 December 1913)
- Vice-Admiral Tadamichi Kamaya (1 December 1913 – 17 December 1914)
- Vice-Admiral Rinroku Eguchi (17 December 1914 – 13 December 1915)
- Admiral Teijiro Kuroi (13 December 1915 – 1 December 1916)
- Vice-Admiral Tatsuo Matsumura (1 December 1916 – 12 December 1917)
- Vice-Admiral Tomojiro Chisaka (12 December 1917 – 13 June 1918)
- Vice-Admiral Kazuyoshi Yamaji (13 June 1918 – 1 December 1919)
- Rear-Admiral Shigeushi Nakagawa (1 December 1919 – 1 December 1920)
- Admiral Naomi Taniguchi (1 December 1920 – 1 August 1921)
- Vice-Admiral Kiyokaze Yoshida (1 August 1921 – 26 December 1921)
- Vice-Admiral Hisatsune Iida (26 December 1921 – 1 June 1923)
- Vice-Admiral Shiro Yamauchi (1 June 1923 – 6 November 1923)
- Vice-Admiral Tadatsugu Tajiri (6 November 1923 – 20 December 1924)
- Vice-Admiral Eizaburo Fujiwara (20 December 1924 – 1 August 1925)
- Vice-Admiral Nobutaro Iida (1 August 1925 – 1 December 1927)
- Rear-Admiral Kesaichi Hitsuda (1 December 1927 – 10 December 1928)
- Vice-Admiral Eijiro Hamano (10 December 1928 – 1 December 1930)
- Vice-Admiral Shusei Yuchi (1 December 1930 – 11 January 1932)
- Vice-Admiral Akira Goto (11 January 1932 – 18 June 1932)
- Rear-Admiral Toyonaka Yamauchi (18 June 1932 – 15 November 1933)
- Vice-Admiral Yoshiyuki Niyama (15 November 1933 – 15 November 1934)
- Vice-Admiral Hiroshi Ono (15 November 1934 – 15 November 1935)
- Vice-Admiral Senzo Wada (15 November 1935 – 1 December 1937)
- Vice-Admiral Shunzo Mito (1 December 1937 – 15 November 1938)
- Vice-Admiral Goro Hara (15 November 1938 – 15 November 1939)
- Vice-Admiral Ibo Takahashi (15 November 1939 – 27 February 1941)
- Vice-Admiral Koki Yamamoto (27 February 1941 – 20 November 1942)
- Admiral Takeo Takagi (20 November 1942 – 1 April 1943)
Chief of Staff
[edit]- Vice-Admiral Baron Shinrokuro Nishi (25 December 1904 – 14 June 1905)
- Vice-Admiral Baron Mitsukane Tsuchiya (14 June 1905 – 10 May 1906)
- Rear-Admiral Sango Obana (11 May 1906 – 5 August 1907)
- Rear-Admiral Kanetane Imai (5 August 1907 – 28 August 1908)
- Rear-Admiral Juntaro Hirose (28 August 1908 – 11 October 1909)
- Rear-Admiral Yushichi Kanno (8 October 1910 – 12 June 1911)
- Rear-Admiral Koki Hirose (12 June 1911 – 20 April 1912)
- Rear-Admiral Eitaro Kataoka (20 April 1912 – 1 December 1913)
- Vice- Admiral Kotaro Tanaka (1 December 1913 – 7 August 1914)
- Rear-Admiral Shigeushi Nakagawa (7 August 1914 – 1 September 1915)
- Rear- Admiral Moshiro Iwasaki (1 September 1915 – 28 January 1916)
- Rear- Admiral Hisamori Taguchi (28 January 1916 – 1 December 1917)
- Rear-Admiral Yoshitada Mikami (1 December 1918 – 26 July 1920)
- Rear-Admiral Morie Tokiwa (1 March 1923 – 1 December 1924)
- Rear-Admiral Shinichi Oguri (1 December 1924 – 1 April 1925)
- Rear-Admiral Junzo Yoshitake (1 July 1926 – 15 November 1927)
- Rear-Admiral Tadashi Kurata (15 November 1927 – 30 October 1929)
- Rear-Admiral Seizaburo Mitsui (20 November 1929 – 15 May 1931)
- Vice- Admiral Shunzo Mito (15 May 1931 – 1 December 1932)
- Rear-Admiral Shinji Suzuki (1 December 1932 – 1 November 1934)
- Rear-Admiral Tsuyoshi Kobata (1 November 1934 – 1 December 1936)
- Vice- Admiral Shigeyoshi Miwa (1 December 1936 – 15 December 1938)
- Rear-Admiral Raizo Tanaka (15 December 1938 – 15 November 1939)
- Rear-Admiral Akira Matsuzaki (15 November 1939 – 10 May 1941)
- Vice- Admiral Toshio Shimazaki (10 May 1941 – 1 April 1943)
References
[edit]- ^ "Organizations of IJA&N: Glossaries". Archived from the original on 10 June 2008. Retrieved 3 December 2008.
- ^ "HyperWar: Japanese Naval Ground Forces (Know Your Enemy)".
- ^ Goldstein, The Pacific War Papers. Page 64
- Prados, John (1995). Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-460-02474-4.
- Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-893-X.
- Goldstein, Donald M (2004). The Pacific War Papers. Brassey. ISBN 1-57488-632-0.
External links
[edit]- Wendel, Marcus. "Axis History Database".
- Budge, Kent G. "Pacific War Online Database".