Hainan Island Operation

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hainan Island Operation Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War Date February 1939 Location Hainan Result Japanese victory Belligerents Imperial Japanese Navy, Japan National Revolutionary Army, China Commanders Vice Adm.Kondo Nobutake Wang Yi Strength  ?  ? Casualties and losses  ?  ?

v • d • e Second Sino-Japanese War Major engagements in bold Before Second Sino-Japanese War Mukden - Manchuria - (Jiangqiao - Nenjiang Bridge - Chinchow - Harbin) - Shanghai (1932) - Pacification of Manchukuo - Rehe - Great Wall - Inner Mongolia - (Suiyuan) Began in 1937–1939 Marco Polo Bridge - Beiping-Tianjin - Chahar - Shanghai (1937) (Sihang Warehouse) - Beiping-Hankou Railway - Tianjin-Pukou Railway - Taiyuan - (Pingxingguan) - Xinkou - Nanjing - Xuzhou - Taierzhuang - N.-E.Henan - (Lanfeng) - Amoy - Chongqing - Wuhan - (Wanjialing) - Canton - (Hainan) - Nanchang - (Xiushui River) - Suixian-Zaoyang - (Swatow) - 1st Changsha - S.Guangxi - (Kunlun Pass) - Winter Offensive - (Wuyuan) Began in 1940–1942 Zaoyang-Yichang - Hundred Regiments - N. Vietnam - C. Hupei - S.Henan - W. Hopei - Shanggao - S.Shanxi - 2nd Changsha - 3rd Changsha - Yunnan-Burma Road - (Toungoo) - (Yenangyaung) - Zhejiang-Jiangxi - Sichuan Invasion Began in 1943–1945 W.Hubei - N.Burma-W.Yunnan - Changde - Ichi-Go - C.Henan - 4th Changsha - Guilin-Liuzhou - W.Henan-N.Hubei - W.Hunan - 2nd Guangxi - Manchuria

The Hainan Island Operation was part of a campaign by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War to blockade China to prevent it from communicating with the outside world and importing needed arms and materials. Control of Hainan Island would provide a base to make the blockade of Guangdong province more effective. At this time the coast to French Indochina was part of Guangdong province. It would also provide airbase that would permit stikes at the routes into China from French Indochina and Burma.

Order of Battle: Hainan Island Operation

[edit] Source

• Japanese Monograph No. 144: POLITICAL STRATEGY PRIOR TO OUTBREAK OF WAR PART I, Prepared by MILITARY HISTORY SECTION HEADQUARTERS, ARMY FORCES FAR EAST, DISTRIBUTED BY OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, Chapter 4, Operations against China during 1939 Pg 46-47.
• 中国抗日战争正面战场作战记 China's Anti-Japanese War Combat Operations
  • Author : Guo Rugui, editor-in-chief Huang Yuzhang
  • Press : Jiangsu People's Publishing House
  • Date published : 2005-7-1
  • ISBN 7214030349
  • Online in Chinese [1]
    • 第七部分：相持阶段前期的作战海南岛作战 1 Hainan Island battles

This Republic of China-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This article about a historical Japanese battle is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.