commander, 4 engagements

Battles of Shōjirō Iida

Japanese general (1888–1980)

Shōjirō Iida is recorded as a commander at 4 placed engagements in the atlas in 1942: 4 battles, all in present-day Myanmar. Taken in date order, the sites lie 563 km apart end to end, 188 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Japanese conquest of Burma (3), Second Sino-Japanese War (1).

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

Engagements by year

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

In time order

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

Wars 2

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
18 February 1942	Battle of Bilin River	Bilin River, Myanmar		Japanese victory
23 February 1942	Battle of Sittang Bridge	Myanmar	44 km NW	Japanese victory
7 March 1942	Battle of Pegu	Bago, Myanmar	77 km SW	Japanese victory; British retreat continued
June 1942	Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road	Burma Road, Myanmar	442 km N	Axis 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.