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The Battle of Wuhan (traditional Chinese: 武漢會戰; simplified Chinese: 武汉会战; Japanese: 武漢作戦 (ぶかんさくせん)), popularly known to the Chinese as the Defence of Wuhan (traditional Chinese: 武漢保衛戰; simplified Chinese: 武汉保卫战), and to the Japanese as the Capture of Wuhan, was a large-scale battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Battle of West Hubei May 1943; Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan October 1943; Battle of Changde November 1943; Operation Ichi-Go. Operation Kogo Battle of Central Henan April 1944; Operation Togo 1 Battle of Changsha (1944) Operation Togo 2 and Operation Togo 3 Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou August 1944; Battle of West Henan–North ...
Chinese troops crossing the Yellow River in June 1938, the river was deliberately flooded by Chinese forces to buy time to defend Wuhan. Below are the units and commanders that participated in the Battle of Wuhan , also called the Wuchang–Hankou campaign , fought from early June through November 12, 1938, a phase of the Second Sino-Japanese War .
In early July 1938, during the battle of Wuhan the 9th Military Region was activated. It commanded units the 1st and 2nd Army Corps and the Wuhan Garrison, in Jiangxi west of Poyang Lake, southern Hubei and Hunan south of the Yangtze River. Following the Battle of Wuhan the Chinese army was reorganized along with the military regions.
The main force of 35th Army Group moved along the west bank of the Bei River near Zhaoqing, and 54th Corps and a portion of 12th Army Group moved to take up positions at Hengshi, Liangkou, [clarification needed] Lutian and Meikang [clarification needed]. The 4th War Area reported more than 10,300 enemy killed, 100 rifles and large amount of ...
Wuhan was the provisional headquarters of the Chinese Army. The Japanese, however, managed, despite heavy losses to defeat the Chinese and captured Wuhan on October 25, 1938. In the last years of the war, Chen went on to command in the Battle of Changsha , the Battle of Yichang , and the Battle of West Hubei .
The Second Sino-Japanese War began on 7 July 1937 with the Marco Polo Bridge incident in the Republic of China and is often regarded as the start of World War II as full-scale warfare erupted with the Battle of Shanghai, [1] and ending when the Empire of Japan surrendered to the Allies in August 1945. [2]
Xue was also involved in the Battle of Wuhan, [2] commanding the 1st Army Corps. In the mountains northwest of Wuhan, Xue succeeded in nearly destroying the entire 106th division of the imperial Japanese army. During the battle, most of the Japanese officers were killed and the Japanese had to air-drop 300 officers by parachutes into the ...