![]() On 5 May, he was assigned to the Personnel and Recruiting Department at Maizuru Naval District. Iwabuchi returned to the Yokosuka Naval District on 10 February 1943, and was promoted to rear admiral on 1 May. A week later, on 22 November, Iwabuchi was reassigned to command the 11th Air Fleet in charge of air operations over Guadalcanal and Rabaul. He commanded Kirishima in the Battle of Midway in June 1942, but Kirishima was sunk in the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 15 November of the same year. ![]() He was reassigned to the staff of the Combined Fleet on 25 March 1942, and was subsequently given command of the battleship Kirishima on 20 April 1942. In April 1941 he was assigned command of the training vessel Kashii.Īt the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Iwabuchi was captain of the seaplane tender Akitsushima. Iwabuchi was promoted to captain in November 1937, and was given command of the seaplane tender Kamoi in 1938. In 1934–1935, he was assigned to Kure Naval District and was in charge of coastal artillery. ![]() In the 1930s, Iwabuchi served as chief gunnery officer on a number of vessels, including the cruisers Ōi in 1930, Abukuma in 1931, and Chōkai in 1932, and the battleship Hiei in 1933. In 1920, after completion of Torpedo Warfare School, he was assigned to the Yokosuka Air Group until the end of 1922. ![]() As an ensign in 1918, he was assigned to the cruiser Nisshin and as a first lieutenant he was assigned to the destroyer Umikaze in 1919. He served as a midshipman on the cruiser Iwate, which made a long-distance navigational training voyage to Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and the South Seas Mandate in 1915. He graduated from the 43rd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in December 1915 ranked 13th out of 96 cadets, and on graduation continued on to naval artillery school to become a specialist in that field. ![]() Iwabuchi was a native of what is now part of the city of Sanjō, Niigata Prefecture. ![]()
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