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The Third Battle of Changsha (24 December 1941 – 15 January 1942; Chinese: 第三次長沙會戰) was the first major offensive in China by Imperial Japanese forces following the Japanese attack on the Western Allies and the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Japan's third of four attempts to capture the Chinese city of Changsha. It was conducted ...
Pages in category "1942 in China" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Battle of Changsha (1941–1942) Chinese famine of 1942–1943;
On May 4, 1942, the Japanese army invaded Longling County, and at the same time dispatched 54 aircraft to carry out a violent bombing of Baoshan, Yunnan, the Millennium Ancient City; on the 10th, the Japanese army invaded the border city of Tengchong. At this point, a large area west of the Salween River (Nu River) fell into the hands of the ...
Beginning of the Chinese famine of 1942-43; April 26 - a gas and coal dust explosion in the Benxihu Colliery killed 1,549 miners. [1] [2] [3] mid May-early September - Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign; A cholera epidemic in Yunnan province kills around 200 people [4]
January 15 — Yuan Guoping, communist army officer (b. 1906); March 14 Xiang Ying, political chief of staff of the New Fourth Army and early founding member of the Chinese Communist Party (b.
The Asiatic-Pacific Theater was the theater of operations of U.S. forces during World War II in the Pacific War during 1941–1945. From mid-1942 until the end of the war in 1945, two U.S. operational commands were in the Pacific.
Upper half of Map 19 showing the Winter offensive 1939-1940 in North China. Map 19, from Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai, History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) 2nd Ed. ,1971. Lower half of map 19 showing the Winter offensive 1939-1940 in Central and South China from Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai, History of The Sino-Japanese War ...
'Great Victory at Yenangyaung') was fought in Burma (now Myanmar) from 16 to 19 April 1942. As part of the Burma Campaign of World War II, the battle was fought between Chinese and British allied forces on one side and Japanese forces on the other. The battle took place in the vicinity of Yenangyaung and its oil fields.