Military campaign of the Second Sino-Japanese War
Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign |
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Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific Theater of World War II |
A Japanese soldier with 50 mm heavy grenade discharger during the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign, 30 May 1942 |
Date | (1942-05-15) (1942-09-04)May 15 – September 4, 1942 (3 months, 2 weeks and 6 days) |
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Location | |
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Result |
Japanese victory |
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Belligerents |
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China United States |
Japan |
Commanders and leaders |
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Gu Zhutong Shangguan Yunxiang Tang Shih-Tsun Wang Jingjiu Li Jue Xue Yue Ou Zhen Shi Zhongcheng Wang Yaowu Xia Chuzhong Sun Du Feng Sheng-Fa Ding Zhipan Wang Tieh-Han Chang Wen-Ching Tao Kuang Liu Yu-Ching Fan Tse-Ying Mo Yu-Shuo |
Shunroku Hata Shigeru Sawada Korechika Anami Sanji Ōkido Tetsuzo Ide Takayuki Uchida Toshijiro Takeuchi Johkichi Nanbu Haruo Yamamura Hachiro Tagami Tagaji Takahashi Shigeru Ōga Saburo Takehara Takejiro Imai Tokutaro Ide Giichi Hirano Naotsugu Sakai † |
Units involved |
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Republic of China Army |
Imperial Japanese Army Unit 731 |
Strength |
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300,000 |
180,000 |
Casualties and losses |
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70,000+ killed, wounded, or missing [1] |
36,000[citation needed] |
250,000 Chinese killed[2] |
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- 1931–1937 (pre-war skirmishes)
- 1937–1939
- 1940–1942
- 1943–1945
- Air War
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The Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign or the Chekiang–Kiangsi campaign (Japanese: 浙贛作戦, simplified Chinese: 浙赣战役; traditional Chinese: 浙赣戰役; pinyin: Zhè-Gàn Zhànyì), also known as Operation Sei-go (Japanese: せ号作戦), was a campaign by the China Expeditionary Army of the Imperial Japanese Army under Shunroku Hata and Chinese 3rd War Area forces under Gu Zhutong in Chinese provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi from mid May to early September 1942.
- ^ 抗日戰史-浙贛會戰. 國防部史政局.
- ^ Carter, James (2022). "The Costs of Alliance: The Doolittle Raid and China." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society China, 82(1), 56-68.