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1942 in China
- Doolittle RaidPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a meeting at the White House on the 21st of December 1941 and said that Japan should be…
- Battle of Changsha (1941–1942)The Third Battle of Changsha began on the 24th of December 1941, just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This timing was no accident for Imperial…
- Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaignOn the 18th of April 1942, sixteen B-25 Mitchell bombers took off from the aircraft carrier Hornet. They flew toward Tokyo, Nagoya, and Yokohama to drop…
- Bombing of ChongqingThe first Japanese air raid on Chongqing struck the city on the 18th of February 1938, marking the start of a campaign that would last until December 1944.