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Battle of Changde Wikipedia

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battle_name=Battle of Changde
|campaign=Second Sino-Japanese War
|image=Image:Changde battle.jpg|300px
|caption=Pitched battle at Changde
|conflict=Second Sino-Japanese War
|date=November 2, 1943 - December 20, 1943
|place=Changde and vicinity
|result=Chinese victory
|combatant1=National Revolutionary Army, Republic of China
|combatant2=Imperial Japanese Army, Japan
|commander1=
|commander2=
|strength1=100,000 troops
|strength2=100,000 troops
|casualties1=50,000 troops
|casualties2=40,000 troops
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The Battle of Changde (zh-tsp|t=????????????|s=????????????|p=Ch??ngd?? Hu??zh??n) was a major engagement in the Second Sino-Japanese War. The IJA invaded the area on November 2, 1943 and occupied the undefended city of Changde. On November 18, 9,000 troops from the 57th Division of the National Revolutionary Army|NRA arrived, and retook the city. The IJA then counterattacked, and the 57th held out for 16 days till December 3, when 100 soldiers remaining escaped the Japanese siege and linked up with reinforcements, who retook the city December 9. Reinforcements arrived from both sides and fighting continued until the IJA finally retreated on December 20. This battle has been stylised the "Stalingrad of the East".

During the battle Japan Changde chemical weapon attack|extensively utilised biological weapons|biological and chemical weapons, among other things, spreading bubonic plague around a 36-km radius in the city.

Reporter and communist Israel Epstein was at the battle.


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Last Modified:   2005-11-04