| Operation codename: Ichi-Go |
Japanese operations in China in letech 1944-1945.
Article on English Wikipedia| Scenario in dates: |
| February 28, 1940: |
In China - Communist troops retake Anding, near Yenan, from the Japanese. |
| March 4, 1942: |
In China - US China headquarters is established by General Stillwell at Chunking. |
| March 24, 1942: |
In China - General Alexander and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss plans for the co-operation of Chinese and British Forces. |
| March 10, 1943: |
From Washington - Chennault is promoted and his command in China is to be enlarged and named the 14th Air Force. |
| March 13, 1943: |
In China - Chinese forces counterattack Japanese forces in the Yangtze Valley. |
| April 1, 1943: |
China - Lin Sen, president of the nationalist Republic of China, dies in Chunking at the age of 76. The performance of his function was only formal, the real power is held by Chiang Kai-shek, who is elected president by the Central Executive Committee a few hours after Lin´s death. All powers denied to President Lin are restored to Chiang Kai-shek. |
| April 18, 1944: |
China - Japan launches operation Ichi-Go, the largest ground campaign of the Japanese Army during the Second World War, which employs 17 divisions, including 500,000 men, 15,000 vehicles, 6,000 artillery pieces, 800 tanks and 100,000 horses participated in this operation. The two primary goals of Ichi-go were to open a land route to French Indochina, and capture air bases in southeast China from which American bombers were attacking the Japanese homeland and shipping. |
| April 22, 1944: |
In China - Japanese forces capture Chengchow in Honan (Henan) province. |
| May 10, 1944: |
In China - Chinese forces cross the Salween River, near the Burmese border, on a broad front. |
| May 23, 1944: |
In China - Chinese forces launch a counteroffensive in Honan (Henan) Province. |
| May 26, 1944: |
In China - Japanese forces launch a major offensive against American airbases in the southeast (Operation Ichigo). The Japanese 11th Army attacks from Hankow and the 23rd Army drives from Canton. A total of about 620,000 Japanese troops are engaged in the operation. |
| June 5, 1944: |
Thailand - US flying Superfotresses B-29 raid Bangkok in their first combat mission. It is reported as a test before being deployed against the Japanese home islands from bases located in China. |
| June 18, 1944: |
China - Fourth Battle of Changsha. The Japanese conquer the city after Chinese commander of defense, General Zhang De-neng, against a direct order from high command orders a general retreat. He leaves town without providing a feasible retreat plan, and his troops are retreating in confusion and falling into Japanese captivity. The rapid fall of Changsha, which was able to defend three times in 1939, 1941 and 1942, causes shock and enormous complications in the defense of Chinese troops against the Japanese operation Ichi-Go. The general will later be executed at the command of Chiang Kai-shek for incompetent command and desertion in combat.
A two-star general Zhang De-neng, the commander of the National Revolutionary Army´s (NRA) 4th Corps in charge of defending Changsha, ordered a general retreat against a direct order telegrammed from his immediate superior, Xue Yue, the Commander of the ninth Military Front. However, Zhang did not provide a feasible plan and fled the city while leaving most of his troops withdrawing in confusion and to be taken prisoner by the Japanese. Zhang was arrested by Xue, stood trial and sentenced by court-martial to five years in prison. He was later ordered to be executed by Chiang Kai-shek on the charge of "incompetence of command and desertion upon combat engagement" by the power of "Military Discipline upon Combat Engagement. |
| August 8, 1944: |
China - the city of Hengyang, an important railway junction with the largest American airport in southern China, falls into the Japanese hands. The surrendering Chinese 10th Corps of 17,000 men defended the agglomeration against six times outnumber enemy force in the longest battle for the city in the entire Sino-Japanese War and caused the enemy more losses than its own size. |
| October 19, 1944: |
China - General Stilwell is recalled from his command by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Partly as a result of controversy concerning the casualties suffered by U.S. forces in Burma and partly due to continuing difficulties with the British and Chinese commanders, escpecially Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. |
| November 10, 1944: |
Japan - Wang Jingwei, President of the Collaborating Republic of China, dies in Nagoya. He thus avoids the trial and execution that awaits all his associates after the war, including his successor Chen Kung-po. |
| November 11, 1944: |
In China - Japanese forces capture the Allied airbases at Kweilin and Liuchow. American forces have rendered the base at Liuchow unusable prior to withdrawing. |
| November 20, 1944: |
In China - Chiang Kai-shek appoints a new Minister of War in an attempt to stem popular disenchantment with his regime. |
| December 18, 1944: |
Over Occupied China - Some 200 US 14th Air Force planes, and 84 B-29 bombers, attack the Japanese supply base at Hankou causing fires that burn for three days. |
| December 21, 1944: |
Over Occupied China - US B-29 Superfortress bombers attacked Mukden in Manchuria. |
| January 24, 1945: |
In China - The US 14th Air Force has to abandon Suichwan airfield because of Japanese advances nearby. |
| January 28, 1945: |
In China - The first supply convoy using the Ledo Road arrives. |
| May 10, 1945: |
China - Four American PoW Marines led by Lieutenant James D. McBrayer escape from a transport while traveling by train from the Japanese prison camp Kiangwan (a suburb of Shanghai) to a ship in Japan. With the help of communist guerrillas, they finally manage to penetrate the country Japanese-occupied part of China and reach the United States after 61 days. After the war, McBrayer will write the book "Escape!" about the dramatic escape. |
| May 11, 1945: |
In China - Chinese armies hold up the Japanese offensive against Chihchiang, threatening the flanks of the advancing columns and firmly defending in the area of Paima Shan. |
| May 18, 1945: |
In China - Chinese forces reoccupy Foochow, in Fukien province. Reinforcements from Burma (three Chinese divisions, which in 1942 during Burma road defense retreated before the Japanese to India instead of China) are about to return. |
| May 20, 1945: |
In China - Japanese troops evacuate Hochih, in Kwanghsi province. The Japanese Imperial General Staff has decided to redistribute available forces closer to the home islands. |
| May 27, 1945: |
In Burma - For the first time in history, an entire army is moved by air transport. American aircraft fly the Chinese 6th Army from Burma to China. |
| May 27, 1945: |
In China - Chinese troops complete the occupation of Nanning, the capital of Kwangsi Province. This success cuts off the main Japanese supply route from French Indochina, Thailand, Malaya and Burma, leaving up to 200,000 Japanese troops stranded. |
| May 31, 1945: |
In Chunking - Chiang Kai-shek gave up his title as president of the Nationalist Executive Yuan (prime minister) but remains president of China. Song Ziwen (Dr. T. V. Soong) succeeds Chiang. |
| June 7, 1945: |
In China - In Kwangsi province, 3 Chinese armies prepare to launch an offensive to liberate the Hong Kong - Canton area. In Hunan province, the Chinese follow up the retreating Japanese as far as Paoching, which was the starting position of the Japanese spring offensive. |
| June 10, 1945: |
In China - Chinese forces capture the port of Wenchow (I-shan) and pursue the Japanese forces toward Liuchow. |
| June 11, 1945: |
In China - Japanese forces recapture Ishan in Kwangsi Province. |
| June 13, 1945: |
In China - Japanese forces prepare to evacuate Liuchow and Kweilin. |
| June 14, 1945: |
In China - Chinese forces capture the city of Ishan from Japanese forces after a five-day battle. The Chinese forces pursue the Japanese towards Liuchow. |
| June 15, 1945: |
In China - Chinese forces advance along a broad front in Kwangsi Province. |
| June 17, 1945: |
In China - General Arnold orders General Chennault to be replaced by General Stratemeyer as Commander in Chief of the US air forces operating in China. Japanese troops in southern China begin withdrawing northward in five long columns between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. |
| June 18, 1945: |
In China - Chinese forces capture the port of Wenchow. |
| June 20, 1945: |
In China - The Allies agree on a plan to capture Fort Bayard (now Zhanijang), on the South China Sea, by August 1st. The area is intended to serve as a base for operations against Japanese held Hong Kong and Canton. |
| June 22, 1945: |
In China - Japanese troops evacuate Liuchow, setting it on fire before the approaching Chinese forces. |
| June 26, 1945: |
In China - Chinese forces capture Liuchow airfield. |
| June 30, 1945: |
In Washington - President Truman appoints James F. Byrnes to succeed Edward Stettinius as Secretary of State. |
| June 30, 1945: |
In China - Chinese forces capture Liuchow on the border of French Indochina (also occupied by the Japanese). The Chinese continue their advance into Indochina. |
| July 1, 1945: |
In China - Chinese forces liberate Liuchow. |
| July 6, 1945: |
Over Japan - Some 600 US B-29 Superfortress bombers struck Osaka, Kofu, Chiba, Shimizu (near Tokyo), Shimotsu and Akashi, all on Honshu. Nearly 4000 tons of bombs are dropped. |
| July 6, 1945: |
In China - General Claire Chennault resigns his command of the US 14th Army Air Force in protest to plans to disband it. |
| July 9, 1945: |
In China - Chinese forces capture the Tanchuk airbase. Chinese forces advancing rapidly eastward in southern Kwangsi province have severed the last link between the Japanese army in China and the garrison in Indochina. With Nanning and Luichow recaptured, Chinese units now again control the three US 14th Army Air Force bases lost last year. |
| July 16, 1945: |
In China - Japanese units begin pulling out of Amoy (Xiamen), in the south. |
| July 19, 1945: |
Over Japan - In China - The American Far East Air Force bombs four Japanese air bases in the Shanghai area. |
| July 20, 1945: |
Over China - For the second consecutive day, more than 200 Allied bombers, flying from Okinawa, attack Japanese airfields in the area of Shanghai. |
| July 21, 1945: |
In China - Authorities in Chungking say that Chinese forces are closing in on Kweilin, the largest Japanese airbase and capital of the south China province of Kwangsi. |
| July 22, 1945: |
In Burma - Japanese forces trapped in the Pegu Hills, estimated to number 5000, suffer heavy losses in attempts to breakout eastwards to the Sittang river. |
| July 22, 1945: |
In China - The American Far East Air Force attack Japanese air bases and shipping in the Shanghai area with 300 planes (including the new Douglas A-26 Invader light bomber). The Japanese news agency later reports that the Shanghai area was bombed by about 100 bombers and fighters and claims the Japanese shot down 4 planes and damaged 7 others. |
| July 27, 1945: |
In Japan - British and American carriers conduct extensive air strikes. During the night (July 27-28), US B-29 bombers drop some 600,000 leaflets over 11 Japanese cities which warn inhabitants that the cities are on the target list for bombing raids. |
| July 27, 1945: |
In China - The first Chinese forces enter Kweilin. Fighting for the possession of the town continues until the end of the month. Other Chinese forces capture Tanchuk airfield. |
| August 1, 1945: |
In China - Allied mines, dropped by air, bring Japanese shipping on the Yangtze river to a halt. The Japanese have lost 36 ships (with 11 others damaged, for a total loss of 35,000 tons) as a result of Allied aerial mines. |
| August 5, 1945: |
In the Marianna Islands - On Tinian, at about 0210 hours, seven American aircraft take off for Japan. One of the aircraft is the specially modified B-29 Superfortress -- the Enola Gay -- carrying the "Little Boy" atomic bomb and heading for Hiroshima. |
| August 5, 1945: |
In China - The Chinese 13th Army captures the town of Tanchuk. The Chinese 58th Division liberates Hsinning (Changchun). |
| August 9, 1945: |
In China - In the north, Soviet forces begin an offensive against the Japanese army occupying Manchuria with puppet state Manchukuo about 10 minutes after midnight. The Soviets have assembled about 1,500,000 troops in three army groups for the operation: 1st Far East Front, 2nd Far East Front and the Transbaikal Front. They are equipped with 3900 aircraft, 5500 tanks and 26,000 artillery tubes. The outnumbered 1,000,000 men of the poorly equipped Japanese Kwantung Army (Yamada) lack armor, artillery and aircraft. Japanese defenses are quickly overcome. Meanwhile, Chinese paratroopers are dropped on the Canton-Hankow rail line. |
| August 12, 1945: |
In China - In Chunking, the Chinese-American headquarters cancels the operations against Fort Bayard, Hong Kong and Canton, in light of the imminent capitulation of Japan. |
| August 15, 1945: |
In China - Chiang Kai-shek marks the Japanese capitulation with a radio broadcast saying that "Our faith in justice through the black and hopeless days of eight long years of struggle has been rewarded." For the Chinese the war against Japan began on July 7, 1937. Meanwhile, Chu Teh, the Commander in Chief of the Chinese Communist army, warns the Allies that the Communists expect a share in the Japanese surrender and postwar settlement. |
| August 25, 1945: |
In China - Captain John Birch of the US Army is shot dead in a scuffle with Chinese Communist soldiers. The liberation of China is becoming a race between the rival Nationalist and Communist forces. Troops of the Kuomintang, commanded by Generalisimo Chiang Kai-shek, enter Shanghai and Nanking, the prewar capital. The Japanese surrender at Nanking was accepted with Communist troops only 3 miles from the city. Communist forces are reported to be marching towards both cities. In Shanghai, the Communists claim workers are occupying factories and preparing to welcome the Communist forces. In the south, Communist forces are reported to be advancing in Canton and nearing Hong Kong. In the north they are closing in on Tientsin. |
| October 12, 1946: |
United States - General Joseph Stilwell dies of stomach cancer in San Francisco, who served mainly in China, India and Burma during the war and in the of war commanded the 10th Army in Okinawa after death of General Buckner. |
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