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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
Between 1942 and 1945, there were four main areas of conflict in the Pacific War: China, the Central Pacific, South-East Asia and the South West Pacific. US sources refer to two theaters within the Pacific War: the Pacific theater and the China Burma India Theater (CBI). However, these were not operational commands.
Eighty Years' War: 166 Battle of Solebay: 1672 Third Anglo-Dutch War: 3,100 Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue: 1692 Nine Years' War: 10,000 Battle of Pondicherry: 1759 Seven Years' War: 1,589 Battle of Chesma: 1770 Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) 12,000 Battle of Dogger Bank: 1781 Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: 988 Battle of Vyborg Bay: 1790 Russo ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
By April 1945, China had already been at war with Japan for more than seven years. Both nations were exhausted by years of battles, bombings and blockades. From 1941–1943, both sides maintained a "dynamic equilibrium", where field engagements were often numerous, involved large numbers of troops and produced high casualty counts, but the results of which were mostly indecisive.