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During the Battle of Shanghai, part of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese military forces advanced upon and attacked Shanghai, China's most populous city.Wong and other newsreel men, such as Harrison Forman and George Krainukov, captured many images of the fighting, including the gruesome aftermath of an aerial bombing made by three Japanese aircraft against two prominent hotels on Nanking ...
August 30, 1937. (in French) Pictures of the fighting taken from the French cruiser Lamotte-Picquet, anchored in the harbor (in Italian) 40 rare pictures of the Battle of Shanghai; National Archives (USA) film, "On the Japanese bombing and occupation of Shanghai". total run time = 10:20 Archived 2020-09-14 at the Wayback Machine
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In August 1937, an unexpected typhoon swept coastal China, which prevented commercial shipping from accessing the city. The typhoon also damaged Shanghai's telephone system, hindering communication, and led to the suspension of flights between Shanghai and Guangzhou. Despite these disruptions, the recovery was quick, and normalcy returned soon ...
Original - Shanghai's South Station after a Japanese bombing run: A terrified baby found under a pile of wreckage and placed on a platform by a rescue worker. This terrified baby was almost the only human being left alive in Shanghai's South Station after the brutal Japanese bombing. China, August 28, 1937. version 2 Reason
[2] [3] Wong's most famous photo, "Bloody Saturday" or "Shanghai Baby", was taken during the Battle of Shanghai in the Second Sino-Japanese War. It shows a baby sitting up and crying amid the bombed-out wreckage of Shanghai South Railway Station. [2] [3] Within a year of its publishing, the photo was seen by more than 136 million people. [4]
English: Chinese prisoners of war at Shanghai on August 23, 1937. The seal on the left side of the photo was placed by the Japanese News Censorship Bureau. It reads, "Not permitted."写真(右)：日本兵に捕まった中国軍兵士 (1937 年8月23日頃の上海)；狭い鉄条網の柵中に立ったまま閉じ込められている。
The Second Sino-Japanese War began on 7 July 1937 with the Marco Polo Bridge incident in the Republic of China and is often regarded as the start of World War II as full-scale warfare erupted with the Battle of Shanghai, [1] and ending when the Empire of Japan surrendered to the Allies in August 1945. [2]