Battle of West Henan-North Hubei

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Battle of West Henan-North Hubei
Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War
Date 21 March - 11 May 1945 Location West Henan, North Hubei Result draw but Japanese obtained control of local airbases
Combatants
National Revolutionary Army, China	Imperial Japanese Army, Japan
Strength
17 armies	5 divisions, 3 brigades
Casualties
?	15,000 troops

Second Sino-Japanese War

Major engagements in bold Mukden - Invasion of Manchuria -(Jiangqiao - Nenjiang Bridge - Chinchow - Harbin) - Shanghai (1932) - Operation Nekka - ( Rehe - Great Wall) - Suiyuan - 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) - Wuhan - Canton - (Hainan) - (Xiushui River) - Nanchang - Suixian-Zaoyang - (Swatow) - 1st Changsha - S.Guangxi- (Kunlun Pass) - Winter Offensive -(Wuyuan) - Zaoyang-Yichang - Hundred Regiments - Indochina Expedition - C. Hopei - S.Henan - W. Hopei - Shanggao - S.Shanxi - 2nd Changsha - 3rd Changsha - Yunnan-Burma Road-(Yenangyaung)- Zhejiang-Jiangxi - W.Hubei - N.Burma-W.Yunnan - Changde - C.Henan - 4th Changsha - Guilin-Liuzhou - W.Henan-N.Hubei - W.Hunan- 2nd Guangxi edit

The Battle of West Henan-North Hubei (Traditional Chinese: 豫西鄂北會戰; Simplified Chinese: 豫西鄂北会战; pinyin: Yù Xī È Běi Huìzhàn), was one of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

[edit] Order of battle

[edit] Chinese

• 59th Army
• 69th Army
• 77th Army
• New 8th Army
• 68th Army
• 55th Army
• 45th Army
• 15th Army
• 85th Army
• 89th Army

[edit] Japanese

• 39th Division
• 5th Brigade
• 11th Brigade
• B Army (???)
• 22nd Army Group

• 2 divisions

• 110th Division
• 115th Division
• 11th Brigade
• 4th Cavalry Brigade
• 3rd Armoured Brigade