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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.
This is a list of military engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period.
The flood bought time for the Battle of Wuhan. [24] [9] The flood stopped the Japanese Army from capturing the Zhengzhou junction of the Beijing–Wuhan Railway. [8] Unintentionally, the flood also destroyed the Bengbu railway bridge of the Tianjin–Pukou Railway. [24] The Japanese thus could not use either railway to send its troops and ...
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 .
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 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge reminds us that appeasing tyrants never works. The U.S. must continue to stand strong against tyrants like Vladimir Putin to keep America safe.
Residents in Wuhan sang the Chinese national anthem out of their windows as no more new coronavirus cases in the city on March 18. The video shows residents singing the national anthem and ...
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