Masao Baba | |
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![]() Lieutenant General Masao Baba (Centre) at Labuan airstrip to sign the surrender document at the 9th Division Headquarters (10 September 1945) | |
Born | Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan | 7 January 1892
Died | 7 August 1947 Rabaul, Territory of New Guinea | (aged 55)
Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
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Years of service | 1909–1945 |
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Commands | IJA 37th Army |
Battles/wars | Second Sino-Japanese War World War II |
Masao Baba (馬場 正郎, Baba Masao, 7 January 1892 – 7 August 1947) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, commanding the Japanese ground forces of the Borneo Campaign of 1945 in the closing months of the war.