Battle of West Henan–North Hubei
| Battle of West Henan-North Hubei | |||||||||
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| Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the China Burma India Theater and the Pacific Theater of World War II | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| China | Japan | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Hu Zongnan Liu Zhi |
Sinnosuke Sasaki Takashi Takamori | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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5 army group 4 airforce group |
7 divisions 5 brigades 100+ tanks 13 armoured cars 1,000+ vehicles | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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From 21 March until 18 July 1945 : 474 officers and 18,403 soldiers killed 903 officers and 15,699 soldiers wounded 190 officers and 6,312 soldiers missing |
Chinese claim : ~16,000 dead and wounded Japanese claim : Japan admitted to suffering tremendous casualties in a failed counter attack north of Xixia, Henan from 29 April – 10 May, but did not give any specific figures | ||||||||
The Battle of West Henan–North Hubei (simplified Chinese: 豫西鄂北会战; traditional Chinese: 豫西鄂北會戰; pinyin: Yù Xī È Běi Huìzhàn) was one of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was fought in March–May 1945 in northern Hubei and western Henan. While it was a tactical stalemate, the Japanese forces at Laohekou in Hubei seized control of the local airbase, denying Chinese forces any localized air support, after heavy fighting from 22 March to 8 April. Japan lost a failed counteroffensive in fighting against Chinese north of Xixia in Henan from 5 April to 10 May.