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Before 1942 and inclusion in the Pacific War: 1937-07-07 – 1937-07-09 Marco Polo Bridge Incident; 1937-08-13 – 1937-11-26 Battle of Shanghai; 1937-09-01 – 1937-11-09 Battle of Taiyuan; 1937-12-09 – 1938-01-31 Battle of Nanjing; 1938-03-24 – 1938-05-01 Battle of Xuzhou; 1938-06-11 – 1938-10-27 Battle of Wuhan
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics, famines, or genocides.
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, [36] was the theater of World War II fought between the Empire of Japan and the Allies in East and South East Asia, the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and Oceania.
A western source recorded 20,900 Japanese casualties and about 20,000 collaborator casualties. [ 4 ] The Chinese also recorded 474 km of railway and 1502 km of road sabotaged, 213 bridges and 11 tunnels blown up, and 37 stations destroyed, but Japanese records give 73 bridges, 3 tunnels, and 5 water towers blown up; 20 stations burned, and 117 ...
The tactical objective of the Japanese China Expeditionary Army was to secure the railroad of Hunan-Guizhou-Guangxi and the southern area of China. The United States 14th Air Force of United States Army Air Forces also stationed their fighters and bombers at several air bases along the three-province railroad: Hengyang , Lingling, Guilin ...
Operation Ichi-Go (Japanese: 一号作戦, romanized: Ichi-gō Sakusen, lit. 'Operation Number One') was a campaign of a series of major battles between the Imperial Japanese Army forces and the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, fought from April to December 1944.
The Sino-Indian War between China and India occurred in October–November 1962. A disputed Himalayan border was the main cause of the war. There had been a series of violent border skirmishes between the two countries after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when India granted asylum to the Dalai Lama.
The fall of Singapore, also known as the Battle of Singapore, [c] took place in the South–East Asian theatre of the Pacific War. The Empire of Japan captured the British stronghold of Singapore , with fighting lasting from 8 to 15 February 1942.