Photos Sino-Japanese War

[uktabber]

Shinpachi -- excellent posts! Thank you!!

YES, that’s some great stuff!!

 

[Shinpachi]

Thanks uktabber for kind comment too
Details of the battle of Nanjing are not necessarily told in this photo album but LIFE dated May 9, 1938 introduces them like this -

"Horrors beyond human imagination took place in Nanking between Dec. 10 and 18, 1937. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, despite expert advices, had left some of his best troops to make a last stand inside the city. When the walls were breached, Chinese soldiers stripped to their underclothes and ran around looking for civilian clothes to disguise themselves. Japanese shot down everyone seen running or caught in a dark alley. Soldiers and civilians were tied in groups of 50 and executed in cold blood!"

According to local Wikipedia, KMT claimed they left 50,000 troops in the city but Japanese side counted about 80,000 stipped uniforms. This is one of the arguments between Japanese and Chinese historians as CCP claims 300,000.

 

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Aftermath against Japan in 1937 - 1938

 

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Japanese forces during the Battle of Shanghai, 1937.

 

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Nationalist China troops, Shanghai 1937

 

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Jubilant soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army pose with a toppled statue of Sun Yat-sen, founding father of the Republic of China, Shanghai 1937.

 

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Japanese soldiers in urban combat in China, 2nd Sino-Japanese War.

 

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Chinese Nationalist infantryman, 1943.

 

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Chinese child soldier, age 10, with heavy pack, is a member of a Chinese division which is boarding planes at the North Airstrip, Myitkyina, Burma, bound for China., 5 Dec 1944

 

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Battle for Shanghai
Near Nanxiang, Shanghai, China. Japanese troops advancing behind Type 94 tankettes. 1937

Japanese soldiers wearing gas masks walked through the streets of Shanghai

 

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Kwantung Army Type 89A I-Go Kō medium tank