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Of the 1,740,955 Japanese soldiers who died during World War II, 22 percent died in China. [218] Japanese statistics, however, lack complete estimates for the wounded. From 1937 to 1941, 185,647 Japanese soldiers were killed in China and 520,000 were wounded. Disease also incurred critical losses on Japanese forces. From 1937 to 1941, 430,000 ...
During World War II, 1.2 million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. 350,000 American women served in the Armed Forces during World War II and 16 were killed in action. [342] During World War II, 26,000 Japanese-Americans served in the Armed Forces and over 800 were killed in action. [343]
Japanese troops guarding Chinese refugees displaced by war and the Yellow River Flood, China Jun-Jul 1938. The immediate drowning deaths were estimated to range from 30,000 (Kuo Tai-chun, 2015) [11] [12] to 89,000 (China Academy of Sciences, 1995). [13] Estimates of total deaths resulting from floods, famine and plague varied wildly.
[196] 94% of the Japanese soldiers died, along with many civilians. [ 197 ] [ page needed ] Kamikaze attacks sank 36 ships, damaged 368 more and killed 4,900 US sailors, for the loss of 7,800 Japanese aircraft.
In 1938 the Nationalist government flooded the Yellow River in an attempt to stop the advance of the Japanese, flooding through eastern and central Henan, central Anhui and north-central Jiangsu. As many as 400,000 to 500,000 Northern Chinese civilians and Japanese soldiers may have died from famine, disease and flooding.
Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), [note 1] short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment [3]: 198 and the Ishii Unit, [5] was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War ...
[186] [134] Despite the efforts of hospital staff to evacuate as many wounded soldiers as possible during the last days of the battle, many, perhaps the majority of wounded Chinese soldiers were left behind in Nanjing at the mercy of the Japanese. Most, if not all of them, would be executed.
According to official Japanese newspaper: Imperial Japanese Army from 23 August until 12 November 1937 : 19,164 dead from all causes [12] [13] Killed in action: 14,960; Died of wounds: 2,736; Died of illnesses: 1,464; Died from accidents: 4; Imperial Japanese Navy from 9 August until 17 December 1937 : 882 dead from all causes [14] Killed in ...