1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10

Operation Ichi-Go

Henan, Hunan, and GuangxiHenan, Hunan, Guangxi · Japan launched a major offensive to link rail corridors and pressure U.S. air bases in central and southern China.

Other events in this phase

Second Sino Japanese War81
  1. Korea clause in the Cairo Declaration
  2. Conscription implemented in Korea
  3. Operation Ichi-Go: Henan phase
  4. Operation Ichi-GoCurrent record
  5. Defense of Hengyang
  6. Tojo Cabinet resigns
  7. Conscription introduced in Taiwan
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Context

Operation Ichi-Go shows that Japan still mobilized major operational capacity in China late in the war. Railways, air bases, and central-southern fronts converged into the main 1944 surface change.

Sources

Britannica’s China-war overview, the Commons operation category, and a 1944 China map are linked together.

Media

China Proper, 1944 mapVisual recordChina Proper, 1944 mapA 1944 China map for comparing Japanese control and the Nationalist rear area.Operation Ichi-Go mapVisual recordOperation Ichi-Go mapA campaign map of the Henan, Hunan, and Guangxi axes of Operation Ichi-Go.

Source Trail

ReferenceEncyclopaedia Britannica · History of China, late republican periodOpen sourceMedia RecordWikimedia Commons · Operation Ichi-Go categoryOpen sourceMap RecordEmerson Kent · Map of World War II: China 1944Open sourceMedia RecordWikimedia Commons · Operation Ichi-Go mapOpen source