Anyone else find this entire part of world war 2 really interesting? All of the campaigns in China and Manchuria were such massive conflicts that taken out of ww2, they are still some of the most destructive wars in history.
At times when supply lines were broken, soldiers on both sides would run out of ammunition, and have to revert to hand to hand/sword to bayonet combat. The ruination of entire cities at the hands of the Japanese and the massive projects by the Chinese civilians gives me nothing but admiration to their human spirit, anyone else feel the same?
Some materials on the topic
>A Chinese biased american documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vduOjI_e-RI
>The Chinese carved road all carved by hand to reach supplies in allied British territory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Road
>how this whole powder keg erupted to begin withhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_Bridge_Incident
>>1107705
fucked up the link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_Bridge_Incident
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Japanese Chinese casualties are 1:3, similar to American Chinese casualties, and these were large human wave battles, the Chinese suffered from large scale material shortages, and was landlocked. the Japanese also in desperate need of fuel after the Americans weaned them off.
^ similar to American Japanese casualties in pacific war
>>1107781
not to mention that Chinese uniforms were a complete mess. They had seized uniforms from essentially every country their style of uniform. You could have had soldiers dressed in German fledgau with a British brody helmet, or a stahlhelm with just their day clothes. Too bad the Chinese victory was completely forfeit, because Mao and his shitheads captured China easily due to all of the Nationalist forces being depleted and exhausted. I really hope Taiwan remains independent, its the only legitimate China left.
>>1107705
>Anyone else find this entire part of world war 2 really interesting?
I mean, not really. They were pretty much irrelevant to the final result.
>>1107812
Manlets, when will they learn?
>>1107814
90% of the Japanese land forces were in China and Manchuria, but somehow it doesn't matter? And do you mean the final result? If China hadn't been invaded, they never would have been weakened to the point of letting commies take over. And last time i checked, China is a pretty big fucking deal nowadays
>>1107812
>front row: 6'1 vs 5'11
>>1107873
>90% of the Japanese land forces were in China and Manchuria
And you start off by getting your facts wrong. Good going.
>>1107873
In terms of contributing to Japanese defeat, the Chinese didn't do much. However, in terms of avoiding a Japanese victory, the Chinese actually did pretty well. If they had the sensibilities of a nation like France, they would've collapsed when Nanking fell.
>>1107968
A Japanese victory wouldn't have looked much different from the historical situation: shitloads of low-quality occupation forces in China while the actual military fights the Americans and the Brits.
>>1107968
And be left at the hands of a militarized dictatorship hell bend on extracting everything of value and using its people as slaves to throw in machine gun fire in mass assaults against the soviets and Brits? The communist PLA may never would have risen, but there wouldn't have been much of anything left to "rise" into. The Chinese had only one option, to fight or become slaves
>>1107873
>90% of the Japanese land forces were in China and Manchuria, but somehow it doesn't matter
Where did you even get this from? There was never any more than 1,000,000 IJA troops fighting in China at any given time. Even if you consider the couple hundred thousand extra in Manchuria that's still not the majority of the army, and no country fought a majority by the way. It was notable, sure, but Japan defeated by land campaigns.
>>1107812
>Taiwan
>legitimate China
>mfw this what retards actually believe
Taiwan is nothing more than an American client state. They're about as connected to their Chinese roots like a 5th generation Italian-American who claims they're Sicilian.
>>1108228
Yes, unlike Mao and friends who declared war on their "Chinese roots".
