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February — Hainan Island Operation February 21 — Shenzhen and Lo Wu were bombed by Japanese army, 30 people were killed or injured, Japanese government paid 20,000 HK$ to the British Hong Kong government.
Well that map (not the govt, a military academy; and by no means are maps on the area consistent in borders) is wrong. Sheng Shicai, who pledged allegiance to China, controlled Xinjiang in 1939. Marking Xinjiang as separate is a strange innovation that mu: 03:36, 27 August 2010: 1,039 × 814 (4.44 MB) Kintetsubuffalo
Map 18; Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection, China 1:250,000, Series L500, U.S. Army Map Service, 1954- . Topographic Maps of China during the Second World War. These two maps cover the area where most of the fighting went on in the Guangxi campaign: Lai-Pin nf49-1, has the Kunlun Pass just above where the road from Nanning enters the map:
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 (1937-1945) 2nd Ed. ,1971.
After occupying Nanning in November 1939, the Japanese captured the key point of Kunlun Pass and were poised to attack the Chinese forces that protected Chongqing, the wartime capital. Realizing that inaction would result in being cut off, General Bai Chongxi , himself a native of Guangxi, asked the Nationalist Government for reinforcements.
The war had reached a stalemate after two years of fighting. Professor Fu Sinian noted in July 1939 that while the Chinese army had become stronger, the Japanese army had weakened. On 15 August, the 11th Army came up with the general plans for a campaign south of the Yangtze , ranging 250 kilometers (160 mi) from the Xiang River (Xiangjiang) to ...
The Battle of Changsha (1939) (September 17, 1939 – October 6, 1939) was an unsuccessful attempt by Japan to take the city of Changsha, China, during the second Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese forces comprised 100,000 troops in 6 Divisions, in addition to many river-going vessels.
The term Free China, in the context of the Second Sino-Japanese War, refers to those areas of China not under the control of the Imperial Japanese Army or any of its puppet governments, such as Manchukuo, the Mengjiang government in Suiyuan and Chahar, or the Provisional Government of the Republic of China in Beiping.