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The following is the order of battle of the forces involved in the Battle of Shanghai, during the opening stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
National Revolutionary Army
Centralized Chinese Air Force Units (includes former aviators of various warlord air forces and Chinese-American Volunteers)
Imperial Japanese Navy
3rd Fleet : Admiral Hasegawa Kiyoshi
National Revolutionary Army
3rd Military Region - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (20 Aug 1937)
Wusung – Shanghai Siege Area
Yangtse River Right Bank Garrison Sector
Yangtse River Left Bank Garrison Sector
Hangchow Bay Left Bank Garrison Sector
East Chekiang Garrison Sector
Chinese Air Force Units - includes former aviators of various warlord air forces plus Chinese-American Volunteers
Imperial Japanese Navy
Imperial Japanese Army
National Revolutionary Army 3rd War Area - Generalisimo Chiang Kai-skek (after late Sept. 1937)
Imperial Japanese Army
Central China Front Army – Gen. Iwane Matsui
3rd, 6th, 9th, 14th, 36th, 87th, 88th, and the Training Division of the Central Military Academy.
Also the "Tax Police" regiment (equivalent of a division) under T.V. Soong's Ministry of Finance, later converted to the New 38th Division during the war, were German armed and trained by German officers.
2nd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 25th, 27th, 57th, 67th, 80th, 83rd, 89th Division
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The order of battle for Operation Chahar, in the history of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), was:
The Battle of Changsha (1939) was an unsuccessful attempt by Japan to take the city of Changsha, China, during the second Sino-Japanese War.
The order of battle for the Nanchang Campaign
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Below is the order of battle for the Canton Operation, October to December 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The Order of battle Peiking–Hankou Railway Operation
Order of battle for the Battle of Taiyuan in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Order of battle for the Campaign of Northern and Eastern Honan 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Order of battle for the Central Hubei Operation, a battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Tsaoyang-Yichang Campaign 1 May – 18 June 1940
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Battle of South Henan
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The Japanese Imperial Army landed the 25th Army under the command of General Tomoyuki Yamashita on the east coasts of Malaya and Thailand on the night of 7 December 1941.