Hainan Island Operation

Hainan Island Operation Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in trucks during the invasion of Hainan (Asahi Shinbun newsphoto) Date February 1939 Location Hainan, China Result Japanese victory Belligerents Imperial Japanese Navy, Japan National Revolutionary Army, China Commanders and leaders Vice Adm.Kondo Nobutake Wang Yi Strength ? ? Casualties and losses ? ?

The Hainan Island Operation, or Kainan-tō sakusen (海南島作戦) in Japanese was part of a campaign by the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War to blockade the Republic of China and prevent it from communicating with the outside world as well as to prevent imports of much-needed arms and materials.

Control of Hainan Island provided a base of operations for the invasion of Guangdong province and French Indochina, as well as providing airbases that permitted long-distance air raids of routes into China from French Indochina and Burma.

See also

Order of Battle: Hainan Island Operation

Source

• Japanese Monograph No. 144: POLITICAL STRATEGY PRIOR TO OUTBREAK OF WAR PART I, Prepared by MILITARY HISTORY SECTION HEADQUARTERS, ARMY FORCES FAR EAST, DISTRIBUTED BY OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, Chapter 4, Operations against China during 1939 Pg 46-47.
• 中国抗日战争正面战场作战记 China's Anti-Japanese War Combat Operations
  • Author : Guo Rugui, editor-in-chief Huang Yuzhang
  • Press : Jiangsu People's Publishing House
  • Date published : 2005-7-1
  • ISBN 7-214-03034-9
  • Online in Chinese [1]
    • 第七部分：相持阶段前期的作战海南岛作战 1 Hainan Island battles