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Chinese Panzer I, reportedly captured on December 9th, 1937. According to one source, this tank, along with three others, engaged four Japanese war correspondents for Ashahi News, but these were rescued by the Japanese Army in a battle that lasted twenty minutes. Three of the Chinese tanks were destroyed, and one retreated. This particular tank is armed with Soviet DP-29 machine guns.
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A Chinese soldier from the 29th Corps heads to the frontline with his sword. Defense of the Great Wall, 1933.
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Chinese soldiers armed with “Da Dao” swords (literally "Big Sword") during the Japanese invasion of Jehol Province, China, 1933.
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National Revolutionary Army (NRA) soldiers in field uniforms with full equipment, circa 1942
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Nationalist troops in action during the Battle of Kunlun Pass, 1940
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Chinese Nationalist troops with a captured Japanese flag following the Battle of Kunlun Pass, 1940
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Chinese Nationalist soldiers guard a Japanese POW, Changde 1943
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Chinese Nationalist rifleman and light machine gunner in combat in Changde, 1943
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Nationalist troops in defensive position near Linyi during the Taierzhuang Campaign, 1938
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Nationalist troops attack Japanese positions during the Battle of Changde, 1943
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A Type 97 Chi-Ha tank of the 3rd company of the 1st Tank Division of the Imperial Japanese Army during a night exercise in Manchuria, 1943
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The Covert Japanese Biological & Chemical Warfare during WWII (1940 to 1941):
Unit 731 and the Use of Bioweapons
From 1937 until the end of the war, the Japanese experimented with various biological weapons, including the toxic defoliation bacilli bomb (a precursor to Agent Orange) and the flea bomb used to spread bubonic plague. The Imperial Japanese Army’s notorious Unit 731 — a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit — performed tests on human subjects with Bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox, botulism, and other diseases. Japanese soldiers used these bombs to to launch biological attacks, infecting agriculture, reservoirs, wells, and other areas.
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According to Sheldon H. Harris, a historian at California State University in Northridge, more than 200,000 Chinese were killed in germ warfare field experiments. His work also shows that plague-infected animals were released toward the close of the war, which caused “outbreaks of the plague that killed at least 30,000 people in the Harbin area from 1946 through 1948.” Some Japanese scholars contest these figures, but they’re probably accurate.

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An unidentified victim of Unit 731.

It’s worth noting that commanders of Unit 731 were granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for sharing biological warfare secrets with the U.S. military. Relatedly, Japan was the only country to use chemical weapons, such as mustard gas, during the Second World War.
 
Soldiers of the Japanese 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, part of the "Ikeda Detachment", during urban combat in the city of Shāshì, Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang, 8 June 1940
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Japanese infantrymen during street fighting in Yichang, Hubei Province, China, May-June 1940
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