This is the order of battle for the January 28 incident, also known as the first Shanghai incident, in 1932. This was a brief war between the armies of the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan that occurred prior to the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Because the Japanese assumed the tactical initiative, their forces are listed first.

Japan

China

Shanghai Front
General Cai Tingkai

Notes

  1. SNLF units were sent after the incident happened.
  2. In civilian clothes, distinguished by a brassard
  3. In civilian clothes
  4. Patrolled the Woosung Railroad line
  5. Harassed vessels with machine-gun fire

Sources

Print

  • Cooke, Major Elliot .D. (Dec 1937). The Japanese attacks at Shanghai and the defense by the Chinese, 1931-1932. Military Review.

Web

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