Photos Sino-Japanese War

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Type 89 I-Go tank during the Battle of Nanchang, China, 1939

 

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Special Naval Landing Forces with gas masks and rubber gloves during a chemical attack, Battle of Shanghai - 1937

 

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Chinese troops in downtown Shanghai during the 1937 battle.

 

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Chinese soldiers guarding Japanese prisoners of war after the Battle of Changde, Nov-Dec 1943

 

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A Japanese soldier firing a Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun across the Miluo river in September 1941 during the Battle of Changsha against the Chinese Nationalists. The battle for the city of Changsha lasted from 6 September to 8 October 1941 and was a Chinese victory.

 

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Imperial Japanese Navy Marine guarding the German Embassy in Shanghai, 1937.

 

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Japanese marines using axes and hammers during the house to house fighting in the Battle of Shanghai - 1937

 

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Japanese POW with Chinese guards, Battle of Changde, 1943

 

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Japanese Navy marines seize a Nationalist Chinese Vickers Mark E tank, Shanghai, 22 August 1937

 

[Shinpachi]

So many interesting pics

 

[TIGREDELAIRE]

thanks a lot! very good references!

 

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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.

This is a sensitive topic but the unit 731 staff later worked for the ABCC (Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission) in Hiroshima to collect 'specimen' for the labo. The labo still exist there with a different name and few pay attention nowadays.

 

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KMT devastates the Japanese rights and interests in Tsingtao in October, 1937.

 

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The 2nd Sino-Japanese War in 1937.
The Battle of Hudong (East of the lake Taihu/west of Shanghai).
Perspective from the Japanese side.

Fleet commander for China, Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa

Special landing force commander in Shanghai, Rear Admiral Denshichi Oukouchi

 

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Continues...

 

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Continues...

Holding a carrier pigeon

Remembering his country home

Taking a rest

Racetrack and schools

Dachang zhen station occupied on October 27, 1937

 

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The rest of pics from the album.

Advancing to Nanxiang from Dachang

A baloon launched to inform Shanghai people of the fall of Dachang zhen

Landing forces near Chongde girls school

Railroad Administration Bureau occupied

Kunshan occupied on November 15, 1937

 

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Shinpachi -- excellent posts! Thank you!!

 

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Thanks RL64RL for checking

 

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From November 12 to December 17, 1937, Japanese troops hurried for Nanjing to demolish KMT.
Photos from "Running Battle for Nanjing" introduced in 1940.

Neglecting small fortresses on November 11 to 15

Giving a glance at abandoned enemy equipment and beautiful scenery on November 11 to 16

Passing through Wuxi City, smashing enemy turrets, on November 27

Passing through Jintan castle finding abandoned enemy cannons on December 5

Reached Jurong City next to Nanjing on December 7. About 8,000 Chinese POWs are seen on the down-left dated December 14.

Japanese troops attacked Guanghua Gate of Nanjing to rush into the city on December 12. POWs are seen in the down-right.

Captured KMT buildings in the city and views of the destroyed Guanghua Gate.

Awaiting the triumphal entry ceremony on December 17, 1937. Operation completed.

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