List of military engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War

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This is a list of military engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period. Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localised to a specific area and over a specific period. The battles listed here are ones that have corresponding Wikipedia articles. A flag icon to the left of a battle's name shows the victorious side in the engagement. The date to the right of a battle's name shows when it began, except in the case of 1942's Battle of Changsha, which began in December 1941.

Campaigns

Aerial engagements

  • Aerial Engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War

Battles with articles. Flag shows victorious side in each engagement. Date shows beginning date except for the 1942 battle of Changsha, which began in Dec. 1941.

Battles

1931

1932

1933-1936

  • Operation Nekka
    January 1933
  • Actions in Inner Mongolia (1933-36)
    • Campaign of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army
      May - October 1933
    • Establishment of Mengjiang
      December 1935 - May 1936
    • Suiyuan Campaign
      October 1936

1937

1938

1939

1940

  • Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang
    May 1940
  • Republic of China (1912–1949) Hundred Regiments Offensive August 1940
  • Indochina Expedition
    September 1940
  • Central Hopei Operation
    November 1940

1941

1942

  • Battle of Changsha (1942)
    January 1942
  • Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road
    March – June 1942
  • Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi
    April 1942

1943

1944

1945

  • Battle of West Henan-North Hubei
    21 March – 11 May 1945 (Tactical stalemate, Japanese operational victory)
  • Republic of China (1912–1949) Battle of West Hunan April - June, 1945
  • Second Guangxi Campaign
    April - August 1945
  • Soviet Union Soviet invasion of Manchuria August – September, 1945

Japanese invasions and operations

Battles in Burma Campaign

References

  1. ^ Gibbs, Herbert Ronald K; Ryan, D.G.J (1955). Historical Record of the 6th Gurkha Rifles, Volume 2. Gale & Polden. p. 141.