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Battles of the Second Sino-Japanese War
- Battle of Northern Burma and Western YunnanIn the spring of 1942, Japanese forces captured Burma and immediately prepared to attack west Yunnan. They aimed to fight along the Burma Road, conquer…
- Battle of ShanggaoThe Battle of Shanggao began on the 14th of March 1941, when the Japanese 11th Army drove straight at the headquarters of China's 19th Army Group in Jiangxi…
- Battle of Changsha (1944)In May 1944, Japanese troops began a massive transfer of forces from the Japanese homeland and Manchuria to launch Operation Ichi-Go.
- Battle of YenangyaungThe Japanese 55th Division invaded Burma on the 22nd of December 1941. This aggressive move set the stage for a desperate struggle over oil resources in…
- Battle of TaiyuanThe Battle of Taiyuan in 1937 began with a letter. On the 19th of September, Lieutenant General Itagaki sat down and wrote a personal note to three senior…
- Battle of Guilin–LiuzhouIn August 1944, the Imperial Japanese Army launched a massive offensive known as Operation Ichigo. This campaign aimed to connect scattered territories under…
- Battle of XuzhouThe Battle of Xuzhou was a turning point in the Second Sino-Japanese War, fought over more than three months in early 1938 across the railways and cities of…
- Battle of NankingIn July 1937, a skirmish at Marco Polo Bridge ignited the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japan dispatched the Shanghai Expeditionary Army under General Iwane…
- Battle of Changsha (1941)On the 2nd of December 1940, the US Congress passed a bill to provide a 100-million-dollar loan to China. This financial support arrived as Japan signed the…
- Battle of TaierzhuangThe Battle of Taierzhuang, fought in the spring of 1938, began with a desperate defense inside a walled town on the eastern bank of the Grand Canal of China.
- Defense of the Great WallOn the night of the 1st of January 1933, a few hand grenades exploded near the fortified eastern end of the Great Wall. The Imperial Japanese Army maintained…
- Battle of XinkouIn late September 1937, Japanese commander Itagaki Seishiro ordered the Fifth Division and Chahar Expeditionary Force to begin their assault on the Chinese…
- Battle of ShanghaiThe Battle of Shanghai began on the 13th of August, 1937, and would not end until November 26 of that year. By the time it was over, roughly one million…
- Battle of ChangdeThe Battle of Changde began on the 2nd of November 1943, when Japanese General Isamu Yokoyama sent roughly 60,000 troops marching on a Chinese city in Hunan…
- Battle of West HunanThe Battle of West Hunan began on the 6th of April 1945, just weeks before Germany's surrender in Europe, but on the other side of the world the Second…
- 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…
- Battle of WuhanThe Battle of Wuhan was the single largest, longest, and bloodiest engagement of the entire Second Sino-Japanese War. It stretched across five provinces over…
- Marco Polo Bridge incidentThe Marco Polo Bridge incident began at approximately 23:00 on the night of the 7th of July 1937, with an exchange of gunfire between Japanese and Chinese…
- Battle of HengyangThe Battle of Hengyang lasted 47 days in the summer of 1944, and when it ended, Japanese casualties far exceeded the total number of Chinese troops who had…
- Battle of PingxingguanJapanese forces advanced along the Beijing, Baotou railway to Inner Mongolia after capturing Beiping at the end of July 1937.
- Hundred Regiments OffensiveThe Hundred Regiments Offensive began at midnight on the 20th of August 1940, when gunfire and explosions erupted simultaneously along thousands of…