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Battle of Changsha

Battle of Changsha was a battle fought in 1939 at Changsha, in what is now People's Republic of China. It was part of Second Sino-Japanese War, which ran from 1937 to 1945. The recorded result: Chinese victory.

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IJA soldiers during the battle of Changsha, September 1939. Imperial Japanese Army, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Record

Date	1939 (year precision)
Place	Changsha, People's Republic of China 28.200N, 112.967E
Part of	Second Sino-Japanese War (1937 to 1945)
Kind	Battle, interwar and Second World War
Result	Chinese victory
Belligerents	Republic of China (1912–1949)	Empire of Japan
Commanders	Xue Yue; Chen Cheng; Guan Linzheng; Yang Sen	Yasuji Okamura; Masatoshi Saito; Ryotaro Nakai; Shinichi Fujita (general); Shiro Inaba; Shizuichi Tanaka; Shigetaro Amakasu
Strength	~240,000 troops in 5 Army Groups, 1 Army, and 7 Corps divided between 30 Divisions in total.	~120,000 troops in the 11th Army split between 6 Divisions; 12 naval ships; 100+ aircraft; 100+ motor boats
Casualties and losses	Western claim: 20,000 killed and wounded; Chinese claim: 40,193 killed, wounded, or missing; Japanese claim: 44,000 killed; 4,000 captured	Western estimates: 30,000–50,000 killed, wounded and missing; Chinese claim: 33,480 killed or wounded; Japanese claim: 850 killed; 2,700 wounded

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Changsha 1941, same recorded site
Battle of Changsha 1942, same recorded site
Battle of Changsha 1944, same recorded site
Battle of West Hubei 1943, 127 km
Battle of Qingshuping 1949, 130 km

In the same war

Before: Battle of Wuhan 27 October 1938
After: Battle of Nanchang 9 May 1939
All 37 engagements of Second Sino-Japanese War

Elsewhere in 1939

Battle of Changsha is one of 1,912 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 183 in present-day People's Republic of China.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q709333, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Changsha (1939), revision 1376063780, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.