Battle of Changde
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| Second Sino-Japanese War |
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| Major engagements in bold Mukden - Nenjiang Bridge - Shanghai (1932) - Great Wall - Rehe - Suiyuan - Marco Polo Bridge - Beiping-Tianjin - Chahar - Shanghai (1937) (Sihang Warehouse) - Pingxingguan - Xinkou - Taiyuan - Nanjing - Tai'erzhuang - Xuzhou- Northern and Eastern Honan 1938 - Wuhan - Xiushui River - Nanchang - Lanfeng - Suixian-Zaoyang - 1st Changsha - S.Guangxi - Winter Offensive - Zaoyang-Yichang - Hundred Regiments - S.Henan - Shanggao - S.Shanxi - 2nd Changsha - 3rd Changsha - Zhejiang-Jiangxi - W.Hubei - Changde - C.Henan - 4th Changsha - Guilin-Liuzhou - W.Henan-N.Hubei - W.Hunan [edit] |
The Battle of Changde (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: }}}; pinyin: ) was a major engagement in the Second Sino-Japanese War. On November 2, 1943 the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA} invaded and occupied the undefended city of Changde. On November 18, 9,000 troops from the 57th Division of the NRA arrived and retook the city. The IJA then counterattacked, and the 57th held out for 16 days till December 3, when 100 remaining soldiers escaped the Japanese siege and linked up with reinforcements who retook the city on December 9. Reinforcements arrived from both sides and fighting continued until the IJA finally retreated on December 20. This battle has been called the "Stalingrad of the East".
During the battle, Japan utilised extensive biological and chemical weapons, spreading bubonic plague over a 36-km radius in the city.
Reporter and communist Israel Epstein witnessed and reported on the battle.
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NRA soldiers.
Japanese prisoners at Changde.
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