Battle of Changsha (1941)

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Battle of Changsha (1941)

A Japanese soldier firing a Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun across the Miluo river in September 1941

Date	(1941-09-06) (1941-10-08)September 6 – October 8, 1941 (1 month and 2 days)
Location	Changsha, Republic of China
Result	Chinese victory

Belligerents

Republic of China

Empire of Japan

Commanders and leaders

Xue Yue

Korechika Anami

Units involved

Republic of China Army

Imperial Japanese Army

Imperial Japanese Navy

Strength

300,000
30 divisions
631 artillery pieces^[1]

120,000 troops
46 battalions
326 artillery pieces^[1]

Casualties and losses

Ninth War Zone : 70,019 killed, wounded, or missing.^[2]
Sixth War Zone : 21,542 killed, wounded, or missing,^[3]
Total:
91,561 killed, wounded or missing

1,684 killed and missing
5,184 wounded^[1]

Second Sino-Japanese War

1931–1937 (pre-war skirmishes)

1937–1939

Marco Polo Bridge
Beiping–Tianjin
Chahar
2nd Shanghai
- Sihang Warehouse
Railway Operation
- Beiping–Hankou
- Tianjin–Pukou
Taiyuan
- Pingxingguan
- Xinkou
Nanking
- Massacre
Xuzhou
- Taierzhuang
North-East Henan
- Lanfeng
Amoy
Chongqing
Yellow River flood
Wuhan
- Wanjialing
- Wenxi fire
Canton
- Hainan
Nanchang
Suixian–Zaoyang
- Swatow
1st Changsha
South Guangxi
- Kunlun Pass
Winter Offensive
- West Suiyuan
- Wuyuan

1940–1942

Zaoyang–Yichang
Hundred Regiments
North Vietnam
Central Hubei
South Anhui
South Henan
West Hubei
Shanggao
South Shanxi
2nd Changsha
3rd Changsha
Yunnan-Burma Road
- Tachiao
- Oktwin
- Toungoo
- Yenangyaung
Zhejiang–Jiangxi
Sichuan (cancelled)

1943–1945

West Hubei
North Burma and West Yunnan
- Myitkyina
- Mount Song
Changde
Ichi-Go
- 4th Changsha
- Hengyang
- Guilin–Liuzhou
West Henan–North Hubei
West Hunan
Guangxi

Air War

Taihoku

Japanese offensives,
1940–1942

1940

1941

1942

Military campaigns of the Empire of Japan

Meiji period

Taishō period

Shōwa period

The (Second) Battle of Changsha (6 September – 8 October 1941; Chinese: 第二次長沙會戰) was Japan's second attempt at taking the city of Changsha, China, the capital of Hunan Province, as part of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

The Japanese were repulsed again, and the battle ended with a Chinese victory.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Japanese Monograph No. 179, Central China Area Operations Record 1937-1941 pp. 265
^ 抗日战争湖南战场史料(二). 2012. p. 243.
^ 國史館檔案史料文物查詢系統，陳誠電蔣中正何應欽第六戰區襄西攻勢作戰各部隊人員傷亡報告，典藏號：002-090200-00071-042 [1]

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Timeline

Prelude	Africa Second Italo-Ethiopian War Asia Second Sino-Japanese War Battles of Khalkhin Gol Europe Anschluss Munich Agreement Occupation of Czechoslovakia Operation Himmler Italian invasion of Albania
1939	Invasion of Poland Battle of the Atlantic Phoney War First Battle of Changsha Battle of South Guangxi Winter War 1939–1940 Winter Offensive
1940	Norwegian campaign German invasion of Denmark Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang German invasion of Luxembourg German invasion of the Netherlands German invasion of Belgium Battle of France Dunkirk evacuation Battle of Britain Battle of the Mediterranean North Africa West Africa British Somaliland Hundred Regiments Offensive Baltic states Eastern Romania Japanese invasion of French Indochina Italian invasion of Greece Compass
1941	Battle of South Henan Battle of Shanggao Invasion of Yugoslavia German invasion of Greece Battle of Crete Anglo-Iraqi War Battle of South Shanxi Syria–Lebanon campaign East African campaign Invasion of the Soviet Union Summer War Finland (Silver Fox) Lithuania Battle of Kiev Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran Second Battle of Changsha Siege of Leningrad Battle of Moscow Bombing of Gorky Siege of Sevastopol Attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese invasion of Thailand Fall of Hong Kong Fall of the Philippines Battle of Guam Battle of Wake Island Malayan campaign Battle of Borneo Japanese invasion of Burma Third Battle of Changsha Greek famine of 1941–1944
1942	Fall of Singapore Battle of the Java Sea St Nazaire Raid Battle of Christmas Island Battle of the Coral Sea Battle of Madagascar Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign Battle of Gazala Battle of Dutch Harbor Battle of Midway Aleutian Islands campaign Kiska Attu Blue First Battle of El Alamein Battle of Stalingrad Kokoda Track campaign Rzhev Jubilee Second Battle of El Alamein Guadalcanal campaign Torch Chinese famine of 1942–1943
1943	Black May Tunisian campaign Battle of West Hubei Battle of Attu Bombing of Gorky Battle of Kursk Allied invasion of Sicily Smolensk Solomon Islands campaign Cottage Battle of the Dnieper Allied invasion of Italy Armistice of Cassibile Burma Northern Burma and Western Yunnan Changde Second Battle of Kiev Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign Tarawa Makin Bengal famine of 1943
1944	Tempest Monte Cassino / Anzio Korsun–Cherkassy Narva Ichi-Go Overlord Neptune Mariana and Palau Bagration Western Ukraine Second Battle of Guam Tannenberg Line Warsaw Uprising Eastern Romania Liberation of Paris Dragoon Gothic Line Belgrade offensive Lapland Market Garden Estonia Crossbow Pointblank Vietnamese famine of 1944–1945 Philippines (1944–1945) Leyte Syrmian Front Hungary Budapest Burma (1944–1945) Ardennes Bodenplatte Dutch famine of 1944–1945
1945	Vistula–Oder Battle of Manila Battle of Iwo Jima Indochina Vienna offensive Project Hula Western invasion of Germany Bratislava–Brno offensive Battle of Okinawa Second Guangxi campaign West Hunan Italy (Spring 1945) Battle of Berlin Prague offensive Surrender of Germany document Borneo Taipei Naval bombardment of Japan Manchuria Atomic bombings Debate South Sakhalin Kuril Islands Shumshu Surrender of Japan Potsdam Declaration document End of World War II in Asia

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