Battle of West Hubei

Battle of West Hubei
Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II
Date12 May – 3 June 1943
LocationWest Hubei
Belligerents
 Republic of China  Japan

The Battle of West Hubei, was one of 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was also one of four major battles that took place in Hubei.


It resulted in a Chinese strategic victory, although they lost more troops than the Japanese Army. However, that states that it ended in a tactical draw.

Results

The Chinese government and Western media reported that the Chinese had scored a major victory.[1] Historian Barbara W. Tuchman had another opinion, however. She wrote that the "Japanese withdrew without pursuit from what appeared to have been a training and foraging offensive to collect rice and river shipping."[2]

References

  1. ↑ Title:戰時中華志 Contributor:China. Xing zheng yuan. Xin wen ju Publisher:Macmillan, 1937 Original from:the University of Virginia Digitized:30 Apr 2009
  2. ↑ Barbara Tuchman, "Stilwell and the American Experience in China", pp. 373


Other Name

(simplified Chinese: 鄂西会战; traditional Chinese: 鄂西會戰; pinyin: È Xī Huìzhàn)

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