Since the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 followed by the Japanese attack of Shanghai in 1932, there had been ongoing armed conflicts between China and Japan without an official declaration of war.
A famous photo entitled “Bloody Saturday”, showing a burned and terrified baby in Shanghai’s South Station following an IJN aerial attack against civilians, August 28, 1937
The Battle of Shanghai was the first of the twenty-two major engagements fought between the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Republic of China (ROC) and the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) of the Empire of Japan at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It lasted from August 13, 1937, to November 26, 1937, and was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the entire war, later described as “Stalingrad on the Yangtze”, and is often regarded as the battle where World War II started.
Posted Aug 14, 2015
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