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1941-12-07 (12-08 Asian Time) Attack on Pearl Harbor; 1941-12-08 Japanese invasion of Thailand; 1941-12-08 Battle of Guam (1941); 1941-12-07 Japan declares war on the United States and the United Kingdom; 1941-12-08 The United States and the United Kingdom declare war on Japan
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.
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.
American Civil War: 392 Battle of Riachuelo: 1865 Paraguayan War: 997 Battle of the Yalu River: 1894 First Sino-Japanese War: 1,730 Battle of the Yellow Sea: 1904 Russo-Japanese War: 566 Battle of Tsushima: 1905 Russo-Japanese War: 5,162 Battle of Lemnos: 1913 First Balkan War: 146 Battle of Coronel: 1914 World War I: 1,660 Battle of the ...
Qi-Wei war: 479: Battle of Shouyang: 488: Wei-Baekje war: 494: Battle of Huaihan: 495: Battle of Hanzhong: 497: Battle of Nanyang: 503: Battle of Zhongli and Yiyang: 506: Battle of Hefei: 507: Battle of Zhongli: Liang dynasty defeats Northern Wei: 515: Battle of Shaanshi: 528: Battle of Ye: 529: Chen Qingzhi's expeditions: 531: Gao Huan's ...
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 ...
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937–1945. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-89425-3. Sherry, Mark D. (1996). China Defensive (PDF). The Campaigns of World War II. United States Army Center of Military History. CMH Pub 72-38. van de Ven, Hans (2018). China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China ...
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.