1943-11-02 - 1943-12-20

Battle of Changde

Changde, HunanChangde · Nationalist and Japanese forces fought over a key transport and defensive point in northern Hunan.

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  1. Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign
  2. Battle of Midway
  3. Korean Language Society Case
  4. Battle of ChangdeCurrent record
  5. Greater East Asia Conference
  6. Korea clause in the Cairo Declaration
  7. Conscription implemented in Korea
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Context

Changde shows the inland China war continuing as an attritional struggle in 1943.

Sources and media

Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese campaign source lanes are linked.

Media

VideoVideo · Clip 31:00-32:40Wartime film: inland China warA wartime documentary segment on the long inland war and civilian mobilization.

Source Trail

ReferenceEncyclopaedia Britannica · Second Sino-Japanese WarOpen source