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2nd Battalion (Former Kure 1st SNLF) 3rd Battalion (Former Sasebo 2nd SNLF) 4th Battalion (Former Sasebo 3rd SNLF) 5th Battalion (Former Yokosuka 1st SNLF) 7th Battalion (Former Yokosuka 2nd SNLF) Armed reservists (est. 2,800-2,900 men) [b] and Ronin (est. 100-200 men) [c] Total Naval forces in Shanghai as of Feb 1932: approx. 5,000 men
1st (Destroyer) Sentai - Rear Admiral Yoshida Sendai; Shanghai Special Naval Landing Force - Rear Admiral Denshichi Okawachi; 1st Battalion - Lt. Cdr. Uroku Hashimoto; 2nd Battalion - Lt. Shigeshi Sano; 3rd Battalion - Lt. Shegeru Ito; 4th Battalion - Artillery unit, Disbanded at the outbreak of war, guns were dispersed to the infantry units.
The 1st Battalion had 32 VCL Amphibious Tanks and some 6-ton Vickers Mark E tanks. The 2nd Battalion also in Shanghai had 20 Vickers Mark E tanks, 4 VCL Tanks and Carden Loyd tankettes. The 3rd Battalion had 10 Panzer I light tanks, 20 CV35 tankettes, and some Leichter Panzerspähwagen armored cars. Almost all of these were lost during the ...
In 1937, though still not completely trained and fully equipped with German weapons, the 88th Division under the command of Sun Yuanliang was rushed to the Second Battle of Shanghai alongside the other German-trained divisions. The elite, German-trained division performed admirably, pushing the Japanese marines back to the very shores of ...
In Japan it is known as the First Shanghai Incident (Japanese: 第一次上海事変), alluding to the Second Shanghai Incident, which is the Japanese name for the Battle of Shanghai that occurred during the opening stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937.
Max Bauer was the first advisor sent to China. When Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and disregarded the Treaty, the anti-communist Nazi Party and the anti-communist KMT were soon engaged in cooperation with Germany training Chinese troops and expanding Chinese infrastructure, while China opened its markets and natural ...
On November 3, 1950, the division was renamed again to the 2nd Tank Division (Chinese: 坦克第2师). By then this division was composed of the: 3rd Tank Regiment (former 1st Battalion, 4th Tank Regiment); 4th Tank Regiment (former 3rd Battalion, 4th Tank Regiment); Motorized Infantry Regiment (former 268th Regiment from 90th Division);
The nationalist commander divided the city into two sectors along the Huangpu River.The western half of the city and the surrounding regions including Taicang, Kunshan, Jiaxing, and Golden Mountain Jinshan, were defended by a total of 20 divisions (including all of the armored force) belonging to the 21st Army, the 51st Army, the 52nd Army, the 54th Army, the 75th Army and the 123rd Army.