Operation Ichi-Go

Overview

Operation Ichi-Go was a campaign with several battles between the Imperial Japanese Army forces and the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, fought from April to December 1944. It consisted of three battles in the Chinese provinces of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Significance

Operation Ichi-Go was a large-scale Japanese offensive fought from April to December 1944 across the Chinese provinces of Henan, Hunan, and Guangxi. It was among the largest operations of the Second Sino-Japanese War in terms of forces committed, with Japan deploying approximately 148,000 troops against a Chinese force of around one million. The disparity in casualties — Japanese losses of roughly 100,000 against Chinese losses estimated between 500,000 and 600,000 — points to the scale of the military disaster sustained by the National Revolutionary Army. The campaign unfolded across three distinct battles, spanning a vast geographic corridor through central and southern China, and placed heavy pressure on the Republic of China's capacity to sustain prolonged conventional resistance during the final phase of the war.

Forces & casualties

Commanders (13)