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RM2B0155T–China: A Japanese soldier carries the ashes of a fallen comrade, north China, 1938. Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945). The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945.
RMKWC3C8–Japanese soldier holds the severed head of a Chinese man and a sword. The Japanese Army brutally occupied large areas of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 to 1945. (BSLOC 2015 13 40)
RM2HX5DF3–Japanese units Advance toward Kwangsi Province - Japanese units march toward Kwangsi Province, as soon as landed on the shore near here, suddenly in the face of the enemy's fire, recently. November 15, 1939. (Photo by The Domei News Photos Service).
RMKWC54K–Japanese soldier holds the severed head of a Chinese man and a sword. The Japanese Army brutally occupied large areas of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 to 1945. (BSLOC 2015 13 40)
RM2RGDXJ3–With a Chinese soldier standing guard, repair work on a U.S. fighter plane is carried out somewhere in China. The camouflaged huts in the background act as cover for the American planes
RM2G50FT1–Vintage Chinese Kuomintang anti-Japanese propaganda poster. Second Sino-Japanese War period. 1937-1945 The Kuomintang (KMT) (Chinese Nationalist Part
RM2D5JMPW–Japanese Army transport a military cargo of elephant backs during the fighting in Burma. 1944
RM2RAAHGD–With a Chinese soldier standing guard, repair work on a U.S. fighter plane is carried out somewhere in China. The camouflaged huts in the background act as cover for the American planes Date: 1943
RM2HX66NT–U.S. Airforce In China -- A flight of 'Flying Tiger' pursuit planes is lined up at a secret airfield 'somewhere in China' before taking off on a mission against the Japanese. The U.S. Army Air Forces, led by Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault of 'Flying Tiger' fame, have kept up their scoring record of eight Jap planes downed for each American loss. February 15, 1943. (Photo by Interphoto News Pictures, Inc.).
RM2RN7G5J–(150905) -- BEIJING, Sept. 5, 2015 () -- Photo released on Sept. 5, 2015 by the State Archives Administration of China on its website shows the Chinese translation of an excerpt from Japanese war criminal Kihachiro Sibayama s written confession. Born in Japan in 1922, Sibayama joined the Japanese invasion in 1940 and was captured in August 1945. According to the confession by Kihachiro Sibayama, in May 1940 in Shandong Province, the Japanese soldier shot 30 bullets at Chinese people of about 40 to 50 years old who were carrying shoulder poles and walking, in order to test the effectiveness of
RME1CW20–Chinese soldier guards a line of American P-40 fighter planes, ca. 1942. The shark-face fighters of the 'Flying Tigers' had a
RM2HX66K8–Old Glory And Chinese Flag Go Up -- The stars and stripes and the Chinese flag are raised over the area near Luichow after its evacuation by the Japanese. The ***** saluting was not identified. July 27, 1945. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
RFEC2T48–This terrified baby was almost the only human being left alive in Shanghai's South Station after brutal Japanese bombing. China, August 28, 1937. H.S. Wong. (OWI)
RM2HX5DEW–China Front... Japanese Gun Crops.... Active firing upon the enemy at Hsiaoshna, Chekiang Province, one of the most vital points of the Chiang Kai-shek's army, took a place by an unnamed gun unit of the Japanese troops. April 18, 1941. (Photo by The Domei News Photos Service).
RM2B165H1–Bronze sculpture showing Chinese Communist soldiers and civilians in Chengdu People's Park China
RM2J43HW0–Where Four British Soldiers Perished In China -- Two Royal Ulster riflemen examining the damage after a Jap shell had burst on their Barracks West of Shanghai. Four men of the Royal Ulster rifle brigade were killed and three wounded when Japanese artillery shells struck British defence lines on the Western border of Shanghai today. November 23, 1937. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
RM2B0155F–China: A Japanese soldier says goodbye to a young child before boarding a troop train in Manchuria, 1933. The Second Sino-Japanese War is usually dated from 1937 to Japan's final defeat in 1945, but in fact Japan and China had been in a state of undeclared war from the time of the Mukden Incident in 1931 when Japan seized Manchuria and set up the puppet state of Manchukuo. The Japanese installed the former Qing Emperor Puyi as Head of State in 1932, and two years later he was declared Emperor of Manchukuo with the era name of Kangde ('Tranquility and Virtue').
RM2EA6G1K–Japanese tanker posing against the background of his combat vehicle – Type 95 “Ha-Go” light tank. Type 95 is a Japanese light tank of the 1930s. Also
RM2HX5DGE–Shanghai... Clearing up.... (Hupei Province) - A Certain unit of the Japanese troops, crossed over Han-shui, pursuing hotly of the remnants of the Chiang Kai-shek's army. June 04, 1940. (Photo by The Domei News Photos Service).
RM2HX5DDM–*****... A Japanese insurgent is seen as pursuing the Chinese remnants under the tropical trees. Bishop Scharmach's reminiscences, 'This Crowd Beats Us All' is published by the Catholic Press Newspaper Co. Ltd. February 25, 1939. (Photo by The Domei News Photos Service).
RM2HX5DFJ–War Materials also Occupied by the Japanese - A lot of war materials, to be sent to Chiang Kai-shek's army, was captured by the Japanese troops when units of the Japanese troops entered the town, along the Ninpo-Hangchow Railway. April 25, 1941. (Photo by The Domei News Photos Service).
RM2D5JMR5–Japanese tanker posing against the background of his combat vehicle – Type 95 “Ha-Go” light tank. Type 95 is a Japanese light tank of the 1930s. Also
RM2HX5DDP–Rough Going for Japs in border fighting -- Japanese troops load field pieces in a truck on the Manchukuo-outer Mongolia border in the Lake Bor Region, where desperate fighting between Soviet-Mongolian troops and Japanese forces was been taking place. Official dispatches say that Japanese have crossed the boundary invading either Mongol or Siberian Territory. June 27, 1939. (Photo by Acme Photos).
RM2RN7G6C–(150905) -- BEIJING, Sept. 5, 2015 () -- Photo released on Sept. 5, 2015 by the State Archives Administration of China on its website shows the image of Japanese war criminal Kihachiro Sibayama. Born in Japan in 1922, Sibayama joined the Japanese invasion in 1940 and was captured in August 1945. According to the confession by Kihachiro Sibayama, in May 1940 in Shandong Province, the Japanese soldier shot 30 bullets at Chinese people of about 40 to 50 years old who were carrying shoulder poles and walking, in order to test the effectiveness of the heavy machine gun, thus brutally killed five Ch
RM2HX5DE0–Unnamed place in Manchukuo border... Ever Watchful Westward... with larger and larger Outer Mongolian forces a massing on the western border of Manchukuo, Japanese and Manchukuo border guards are keeping a sharp lookout for frontier incursions. The terrain in the fighting area is so level, however, that the watchers must dig themselves holes in the ground and camouflage them with undergrowth from elsewhere, so they will not be too visible to possible raiders. July 04, 1939. (Photo by The Domei News Photos Service).
RM2HX5DGC–First Picture, Soviet-Mongolians, Japs Battle : Here's the first Picture to reach the United States showing Japanese Troops in action against Soviet Mongolian Troops in the Despate Outer Mongolian border area near Lake Bor (Buir Nor) fighting, which started on May 11, has raged bitterly with estimates of numbers killed running into thousands. Large Scale air battles are described in this vicinity. June 27, 1939. (Photo by Acme Photo).
RM2B165KP–Bronze sculpture showing Chinese Communist soldiers and civilians in Chengdu People's Park China
RM2HX66KT–British bluejackets marching through the deserted streets of Hankow, after this important city had fallen to the Japanese on October 25th. November 17, 1938. (Photo by Keystone).
RM2B0155P–China: Shanghai suburbs ablaze as a Japanese soldier looks on. Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945). The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945.
RM2HX66N5–Chinese Troops Are Their Quarry -- With their grim faces set, and fixed-bayonet rifles at the ready, these Japanese Marines wearing their steel helmets charge along a railway track outside Shanghai, in pursuit of fleeing Chinese soldiers. December 7, 1937.
RM2B0155G–China: Japanese troops using a heavy machine gun during the invasion of Manchuria in 1931. The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945.
RM2B0155H–China: Second Sino-Japanese War (7 July 1937 – 9 September 1945). Japanese troops await Chinese attack. The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945.
RM2HX66M9–Hands Across The Entanglements -- Stretching out their hands gingerly over barbed wire barrier, Japanese soldiers and British troops shake hands to make a picture in conflict with stories of British-Jap Antipathy in Shanghai. The Tommies are of the Garrison in Shanghai. June 12, 1937. (Photo by ACME).
RM2HX66KP–Graveside Services For British Soldiers -- A minister reads the last rites just before the four coffins of members of the Ulster Rifles, British regiment on defense duty in Shanghai, were lowered November 1. The four men were killed by Japanese artillery fire. November 19, 1937. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
RM2J43HTK–Under The Protection Of 'Tommy' -- Photo just received shows a British tommy on Keswick Road, Shanghai, disciplining the queue of between fifteen and twenty thousand Chinese who cross daily into the conquered areas for firewood and food, and return by four p.m. (Japanese curfow). March 21, 1938. (Photo by London News Agency Photos Ltd.).
RM2J43HWB–British Troops Arrive At Shanghai To Relieve Defence Forces -- Men of the first battalion, Durham light infantry, are seen marching on to the race course here on arrival from Hong Kong. They relieved the royal Ulster rifles from British defence duty here during the Sino-Japanese War. December 14, 1937. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
RM2RN7G6P–(150905) -- BEIJING, Sept. 5, 2015 () -- Photo released on Sept. 5, 2015 by the State Archives Administration of China on its website shows an excerpt from Japanese war criminal Kihachiro Sibayama s written confession. Born in Japan in 1922, Sibayama joined the Japanese invasion in 1940 and was captured in August 1945. According to the confession by Kihachiro Sibayama, in May 1940 in Shandong Province, the Japanese soldier shot 30 bullets at Chinese people of about 40 to 50 years old who were carrying shoulder poles and walking, in order to test the effectiveness of the heavy machine gun, thus
RM2J43HXC–British Troops In International Settlement -- British troops in the International settlement in Shanghai, seen from above, while they are lined up and ready to go into the defence linese faching the Chinese and the Japanese. It was men like these who lost their lives recently while on duty at their posts in the settlement. November 15, 1937. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
RM2RN7GR7–(150906) -- BEIJING, Sept. 6, 2015 () -- Photo released on Sept. 6, 2015 by the State Archives Administration of China on its website shows the image of Japanese war criminal Bunpei Nozawa. A handwritten confession by a Japanese soldier from World War II describes troops setting fire to about 100 homes in east China s Shandong Province in September 1941, burning some 50 Chinese civilians to death inside their homes. The State Archives Administration (SAA) of China published the confession by Bunpei Nozawa on Sunday. Nozawa, born in 1920, joined the Japanese invasion in 1940 and was captured in
RM2HX66M8–Quiet follows a dramatic incident. A British officer of the Welch Fusiliers halts his men in the Nanking-road shortly after a Chinese student had flung a hand-grenade into a column of troops during the Japanese “victory march' through Shanghai. The student was killed in the pandemonium that followed. Note the Japanese sentries on the right with their bayonets fixed. January 7, 1938.
RM2RN78XH–(150826) -- BEIJING, Aug. 26, 2015 () -- Photo released on Aug. 26, 2015 by the State Archives Administration of China on its website shows the image of Japanese war criminal Tadashi Hayashi. The sixteenth in a series of 31 handwritten confessions from Japanese war criminals published online, the confession features Tadashi Hayashi, who was born in 1920. He joined the Japanese War of Aggression against China in 1941, and was captured in August 1945. Hayashi wrote that during one anatomy lesson for medical trainees, a military doctor injected a prisoner to put him into a trance . The doctor the
RM2B165KT–Bronze sculpture showing Chinese Communist soldiers and civilians in Chengdu People's Park China
RM2HX66P3–Junkpile Of Wrecked Jap Planes On Iwo -- This Junkpile of wrecked Japanese planes alongside Motoyamo Airstrip No.1 on Iwo Jima represents Havoo wrought by pre-invasion aerial bombings and naval shelling from U.S. forces. This picture was made by Joe Rosenthal Associated Press Staff Photographer on assignment with the wartime still picture pool. March 15, 1945. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
RM2HX66MY–Object Of Search - Hidden Explosive -- Japanese soldiers conducting a vigorous search of Chinese farmers at the settlement border line. Weary, laden down with the burdens that they carry, farmers struggle into Shanghai from the outlying districts with produce to sell in a short-rationed city. Then, on arrival at the International Settlement border line they are stopped by Japanese and their bags prodded and gashed by bayonets. Reason - in the areas from which the farmers come hand-grenades and b
RM2B01561–China: Japanese troops in Shanghai, 1937. Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945). The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945.
RM2J43HTP–British Tommies In Shanghai Streets Again -- British Tommies with rifles and Bayonets in Shanghai street, ready for trouble should it arise. Early in May when Japanese troops Invaded the Shanghai International settlement again because of a bomb thrown on the nanking road British troops were again called to keep order. After lengthy negotiations between the Japanese and the settlement authorities, the Japanese withdrew. June 7, 1938. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
RM2HX66M6–Welch Fusiliers Leave Shanghai -- The Welch Fusiliers marching into Hongkew which is virtually Japanese controlled now. The Welch Fusiliers, who have done splendid work in protecting British residents and interests in Shanghai during the war, have now left the city for Hong Kong on the troopship Dunera. A large crowd of onlookers watched the spectacle of the first Foreign troops crossing into Hongkew since the start of the hostilites. Japanese Marines on guard at the bridge stood smartly to atte
RM2HX5DE8–Jap. Engineers place explosives on a bridge at Longhai Rlwy. June 10, 1938. (Photo by Press Union Photo).
RM2HX5DF9–When Victorious Nipponese Marched into Nanking : Japan gains another objective - Nanking, Victorious Nipponese troops march through the Chunghwamen Gate, Nanking, after hammering with heavy guns at the city for weeks. Ruins of the ancient gate can be seen in the background. April 01, 1938. (Photo by Acme Photos).
RM2RN78YC–(150826) -- BEIJING, Aug. 26, 2015 () -- Photo released on Aug. 26, 2015 by the State Archives Administration of China on its website shows an excerpt from Japanese war criminal Tadashi Hayashi s handwritten confession. The sixteenth in a series of 31 handwritten confessions from Japanese war criminals published online, the confession features Tadashi Hayashi, who was born in 1920. He joined the Japanese War of Aggression against China in 1941, and was captured in August 1945. Hayashi wrote that during one anatomy lesson for medical trainees, a military doctor injected a prisoner to put him in
RM2B165KY–Bronze sculpture showing Chinese Communist soldiers and civilians in Chengdu People's Park China
RM2B0155R–China: Japanese troops waiting for a troop train to depart. Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945). The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945.
RM2RN78XP–(150826) -- BEIJING, Aug. 26, 2015 () -- Photo released on Aug. 26, 2015 by the State Archives Administration of China on its website shows the Chinese version of an excerpt from Japanese war criminal Tadashi Hayashi s handwritten confession. The sixteenth in a series of 31 handwritten confessions from Japanese war criminals published online, the confession features Tadashi Hayashi, who was born in 1920. He joined the Japanese War of Aggression against China in 1941, and was captured in August 1945. Hayashi wrote that during one anatomy lesson for medical trainees, a military doctor injected a
RM2B165KA–Bronze sculpture showing Chinese Communist soldiers and civilians in Chengdu People's Park China
RM2B01563–China: Smiling Japanese troops, 1937. Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945). The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945.
RM2B0155M–China: Japanese troops on a troop train in north China. Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945). The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945.
RM2B018K5–USA: US Government poster identifying a Chinese Nationalist soldier as a friend who 'fights for freedom', 1942. Poster issued by the Graphics Division, Office of Facts and Figures, Washington DC, 1942, to ensure that US forces did not confuse their Chinese allies with their Japanese enemies and shoot the wrong man.
RM2B01560–China: Execution of Chinese collaborators by Nationalist troops, Shanghai, 1937. Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945). The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945.
RM2B0155J–China: Japanese soldiers display a skull and cross-bones flag in occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo), 1933. The Second Sino-Japanese War is usually dated from 1937 to Japan's final defeat in 1945, but in fact Japan and China had been in a state of undeclared war from the time of the Mukden Incident in 1931 when Japan seized Manchuria and set up the puppet state of Manchukuo. The Japanese installed the former Qing Emperor Puyi as Head of State in 1932, and two years later he was declared Emperor of Manchukuo with the era name of Kangde ('Tranquility and Virtue').
RM2B0155N–China: Japanese troops marching through an occupied Chinese town. Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945). The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945.
RM2B0155W–China: Improvised Japanese field hospital, Beijing, 1938. Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945). The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945.
RM2B0155Y–China: Japanese artillery in north China, 1938. Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945). The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945.
RM2B0155X–China: Japanese infantry and tank move into action, 1939. Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945). The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945.
RM2B01F51–Burma/Myanmar: Chinese child soldier on the China-Burma-India Theatre at Myitkyina, May 1944. This Chinese child soldier, age 10, with heavy pack, was a member of an army division boarding a plane returning them to China, following the capture of Myitkyina airfield, Burma, under the allied command of US Major General Frank Merrill. Chinese and allied troops had earlier crossed through the treacherous jungle of the Kumon Bum Mountains before attacking Japanese troops to the south. Exhaustion and disease led to the early evacuation of many Chinese and allied troops before the coming assault.
RM2B00MYP–Vietnam: Imperial Japanese Army troops bicycling through Saigon, c. 1942. The Japanese Invasion of French Indochina, also known as the Vietnam Expedition, was a move by the Empire of Japan in September 1940, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, to prevent China from importing arms and fuel through French Indochina, via the Sino-Vietnamese Railway from the port of Haiphong through Hanoi to Kunming in Yunnan. Japan occupied northern Indochina, which tightened the blockade of China, and made continuation of the drawn out Battle of South Guangxi unnecessary.
RM2B00Y54–China: A Chinese KMT soldier guards a line of American P-40 fighter planes, painted with the shark-face emblem of the `Flying Tigers,' SW China, 1942. Flying Tigers was the popular name of the 1st American Volunteer Group (AVG) of the Chinese Air Force in 1941-1942. The pilots were United States Army (USAAF), Navy (USN), and Marine Corps (USMC) personnel, recruited under Presidential sanction and commanded by Claire Lee Chennault; the ground crew and headquarters staff were likewise mostly recruited from the U.S. military, along with some civilians.
RM2B015J3–India: Japanese WWII propaganda leaflet depicts Churchill making a chained and blindfolded Indian advance against Japan, 1941. China Burma India Theatre (CBI) was the name used by the United States Army for its forces operating in conjunction with British and Chinese Allied air and land forces in China, Burma, and India during World War II. Well-known US units in this theater included the Flying Tigers, transport and bomber units flying the Hump, the 1st Air Commando Group, the engineers who built Ledo Road, and the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), otherwise known as Merrill's Marauders.
RM2B01CD1–Vietnam: Japanese troops entering Saigon, French Indochina, 1941. In September 1940, during World War II, the newly created regime of Vichy France granted Japan's demands for military access to Tonkin with the invasion of French Indochina (or Vietnam Expedition). This allowed Japan better access to China in the Second Sino-Japanese War against the forces of Chiang Kai-shek, but it was also part of Japan's strategy for dominion over the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
RM2B00MWD–Vietnam: Imperial Japanese troops march through downtown Saigon c. 1944. The Japanese Invasion of French Indochina, also known as the Vietnam Expedition, was a move by the Empire of Japan in September 1940, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, to prevent China from importing arms and fuel through French Indochina, via the Sino-Vietnamese Railway from the port of Haiphong through Hanoi to Kunming in Yunnan. Japan occupied northern Indochina, which tightened the blockade of China, and made continuation of the drawn out Battle of South Guangxi unnecessary.
RM2B01987–India/Burma: Japanese WWII propaganda leaflet - An Indian National Army soldier shows a subservient Indian cleaning John Bull's boots what the Burmese independence movement has attained, c. 1941-1945. China Burma India Theatre (CBI) was the name used by the United States Army for its forces operating in conjunction with British and Chinese Allied air and land forces in China, Burma, and India during World War II. Well-known US units in this theatre included the Flying Tigers, transport and bomber units flying the Hump, and the 1st Air Commando Group, the engineers who built Ledo Road.
RM2B01R1J–Taiwan/China: Xu Yue (26 December 1896 - 3 May 1998), Chinese Nationalist general, c. 1940s. Xue Yue was a Chinese Nationalist military general, nicknamed by Claire Lee Chennault of the Flying Tigers as the 'Patton of Asia'. When Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan in 1949, Xue was put in charge of defending Hainan Island. The victorious Red Army was too much for the demoralised Nationalist forces. Xue left for Taiwan after the defense of Hainan Island collapsed. He served as a nominal adviser to the chief of staff in name only. He lived until 1998 to the age of 101.
RM2B030P2–Chinese troops of the National Revolutionary Army fire on Japanese positions during the Battle of Changde, the strategic city in the heart of China’s rice-growing area. Although the Japanese army initially successfully captured the city, the Chinese 57th Division was able to pin them down long enough for reinforcements to arrive and encircle the Japanese. The Chinese Army then cut off the Japanese supply lines, forcing them into retreat. Changde, Hunan, Republic of China. November 1943.
RM2B03030–The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily an
RM2B031M7–The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily a
RM2B030NB–The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily an
RM2B030PR–The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily an
RM2B030TT–The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily an
RM2B030NK–The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily an
RM2B031AA–The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, total war started in earnest in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945. The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily an
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