Second Guangxi campaign

Second Guangxi Campaign
Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific Theater of World War II
Date April 1945 – 21 August 1945 Location Guangxi, China Result Chinese victory[1]
Belligerents
China	Japan
Commanders and leaders
Zhang Fakui Tang Enbo	Yukio Kasahara
Strength
600,000	660,000
Casualties and losses
unknown	unknown

The Second Guangxi campaign (Chinese: 桂柳反攻作戰) was a three-front Chinese counter offensive to retake the last major Japanese stronghold in Guangxi province, South China during April–August 1945. The campaign was successful, and plans were being made to mop up the remaining scattered Japanese troops in the vicinity of Shanghai and the east coast when the Soviets invaded Manchuria, the Americans dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading to Japan's surrender and ending the eight-year-long Second Sino-Japanese War.^[2]

See also

• Order of battle: second Guangxi campaign
• Operation Carbonado

References

1. Tucker, Spencer. The Roots and Consequences of Civil Wars and Revolutions: Conflicts that Changed World History. p. 336.
2. Linchao, Han (September 2015). "The U.S. Was the True Mainstay in the Fight Against Japan in World War II". China Change.