Swatow Operation
| Swatow Operation | |||||||||
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| Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the interwar period | |||||||||
Troops of the Sasebo 9th SNLF shortly before landing in Swatow, June 21 1939 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Japan | China | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Nobutake Kondō Jūrō Gotō | Hua Chen-chung | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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Imperial Japanese Navy Imperial Japanese Army | Republic of China Army | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 43,000 | 13,669 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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Chinese claim: 754 killed 477 wounded 1,258 missing | ||||||||
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The Swatow Operation (June 21–27, 1939; Chinese: 潮汕戰鬥) was part of a campaign by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War to blockade China in order to prevent it from communicating with the outside world and importing needed arms and materials. Control of Swatow and its harbour would provide a base to make the blockade of Guangdong province more effective.