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Second Sino-Japanese War

The Battle of Nanjing

Wednesday Dec 1, 1937
Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Building on the hard-won victory in Shanghai, the IJA captured the KMT capital city of Nanjing (December 1937) and Northern Shanxi (September–November 1937). These campaigns involved approximately 350,000 Japanese soldiers, and considerably more Chinese.


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