Western Hubei Operation

Belligerents

Commanders and leaders

Strength

River Defense Force

103rd Division

11th Army

Casualties and losses

v t e Second Sino-Japanese War
1931–1937 (pre-war skirmishes) Manchuria Mukden Lytton Report Jiangqiao Nenjiang Bridge Jinzhou Harbin 1st Shanghai Pacification of Manchukuo Inner Mongolia Great Wall Rehe Suiyuan 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

v t e Japanese offensives, 1940–1942
1940 Manchukuo Chongqing South Guangxi West Suiyuan Wuyuan Zaoyang–Yichang French Indochina Kaimingjie Central Hubei North China 1941 Panjiayu South Henan Western Hubei Shanggao South Shanxi 2nd Changsha Malaya Pearl Harbor Thailand Hong Kong Philippines Guam Wake Sand Island Niihau Gilbert Islands Indian Ocean Borneo Dutch East Indies 3rd Changsha 1942 Timor Burma New Guinea Qantas Short Empire shootdown Singapore Darwin Ellwood Broome KNILM Douglas DC-3 shootdown Operation K Andaman and Nicobar Christmas Island Ceylon Solomons Tulagi Coral Sea Nauru and Ocean Islands Zhejiang-Jiangxi Madagascar Aleutian Islands Midway Sydney Newcastle Fort Stevens Dureenbee Mount Emily

1940

1941

1942

v t e Military campaigns of the Empire of Japan
Meiji period Taiwan (1874) Ganghwa (1875) Ryukyu (1879) Manchuria, Korea, and Taiwan (1894–1895) Liaodong Peninsula (1895) China (1899–1901) Manchuria and Korea (1904–1905) Korea (1910) Taishō period Tsingtao (1914) German Pacific possesions (1914) Siberia (1918–1922) Shōwa period Manchuria and Inner Mongolia (1931–1936) China (1937–45) French Indochina (1940) Asia-Pacific (1941–1945)

Military campaigns of the Empire of Japan

Meiji period

Taishō period

The Western Hubei Operation was an engagement between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Three infantry, one cavalry and an artillery regiment of the 13th Division crossed to the south bank of the Yangtze River near Ichang to attack the Chinese positions there.

References

Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai, History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) 2nd Ed., 1971. Translated by Wen Ha-hsiung, Chung Wu Publishing; 33, 140th Lane, Tung-hwa Street, Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China. Pg. 342–344, Map 23

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