Who was the highest officer who died during Japan's invasion of China?

The highest officer who died during Japan's invasion of China was Navy General Nobukuro Censheng.

Censheng Jiao Da (Japanese: ぉぉすみねぉ, English: Mineo Osumi, 1876 (Meiji 27) May 1- 1946544. Japanese naval general, Masahiro, First Class, Fifth Class, Baron. Born in Aichi Prefecture, he studied at Naval Academy and Naval University.

He has served as military attaché s abroad, staff officer of military headquarters, military affairs director of naval province, commander of the 3rd Team, undersecretary of navy, garrison commander of the 2nd Fleet and Yokosuga, and military senator. From 193 1 to 1936, he successively served as the Minister of the Navy of Japan's Dog Cabinet, Saito Cabinet and Okada Cabinet. He was the right-hand man of the fleet faction to clean up the treaty faction during the struggle of the Japanese navy in the 1930s (the great division of Showa Navy).

Senior Colonel Censheng experienced two world wars, participated in the Axis conference hosted by Hitler and Mussolini for many times, and participated in the planning to expand the world war. He is the most fanatical Japanese militarist who advocates invading China and Southeast Asian countries. 194 1 year, Senior Colonel Censheng died in a plane crash while inspecting in China, and was the highest-ranking Japanese naval general killed in the Sino-Japanese War.

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194 1 On the morning of February 5th, 2008, Senior Colonel Censheng and his staff took off from Guangzhou Airport on a large transport plane of the Japanese Navy (Captain Xiong Yin Kurosawa), and were escorted to Hainan Island by six fighter planes, serving as the commander of the South Pacific Fleet, preparing to attack Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.

Unexpectedly, Dajiao's plane suddenly encountered a whirlwind over Lingdingyang, and its engine broke down, so it was forced to turn back to the west bank of the Pearl River Estuary and planned to land at Sanzao Airport for maintenance. Then I met the fog. After the plane got lost, it broke into China, the eighth district of Zhongshan County (Dachikan Township) and pushed over the position of the third column.

The air defense observation post advancing into the third column immediately reported the situation of the Japanese transport plane to the column commander Dai Yuan, and Dai Yuan immediately issued the shooting order. The Japanese transport plane was immediately strafed by ground machine guns, many of which were out of control, and finally crashed in the foothills of Huangyang Mountain in Doumen County, Zhuhai City. Then there was a violent explosion at the crash site.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Bigfoot Censheng