| LC control no. | n 2006070014 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hara, Tameichi, 1900-1980 |
| Variant(s) | 原為一, 1900-1980 Hara, Tameichi, b. 1900 |
| Birth date | 1900-10-16 |
| Death date | 1980-10-10 |
| Place of birth | Kagawa-ken (Japan) |
| Affiliation | Japan. Kaigun |
| Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Hara, Tameichi. Japanese destroyer captain, 1961: E-CIP t.p. (Hara Tameichi) Nihon choshamei jinmei tenkyoroku, 2002: (Hara Tameichi; b. 1900) Riben hai jun de beng kui, 1968: title page (原為一 = Hara Tameichi) LC manual auth. card (hdg.: Hara, Tameichi, 1900-) Wikipedia, June 2, 2014 (Tameichi Hara ; an Imperial Japanese naval commander during the Pacific War and the author of the IJN manual on torpedo attack techniques, notable for his high skill, particularly in torpedo warfare and night fighting; born October 16, 1900 in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan; died October 10, 1980; Hara graduated from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy at Etajima in 1921; at the beginning of the war he was a captain of destroyer Amatsukaze, but for most of the war he was a destroyer squadron commander aboard Shigure; on 13 November 1942, Hara's destroyer, Amatsukaze sank the USS Barton (DD-599) during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal; as commander of the Amatsukaze, he also participated in the Battle of the Java Sea, the sinking of the submarine USS Perch (SS-176) and the occupation of Christmas Island; while on a re-supply mission through Blackett Straight in August 1943, upon noticing a fire-ball explosion near the destroyer Amagiri in front of his destroyer Shigure, he ordered his ship's crew to shoot at Lt. John F. Kennedy's Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109, sinking it) |
| Associated language | jpn |
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