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Operation Ichi-Go

BelligerentsJapanChinaUnited StatesCommanders and leadersHirohitoHideki TojoYoshijirō UmezuShunroku HataYasuji OkamuraIsamu YokoyamaHisakazu TanakaChiang Kai-shekHe YingqinChen ChengJiang DingwenTang EnboHu ZongnanXue YueBai ChongxiZhang FakuiJoseph StilwellAlbert C. WedemeyerStrengthJapanese record: In the Henan battlefield148,000 troops33,000 horses269 artillery pieces691 tanks6,100 vehiclesIn the Hunan-Guangxi battlefield362,000 troops67,000 horses1,282 artillery pieces103 tanks9,450 vehiclesTotal510,000 troops100,000 horses1,551 artillery pieces794 tanks15,550 vehicles200 bombers Western Claim: 1,000,000Chinese Claim:In the Henan battlefield: 300,000 troopsIn the Hunan battlefield: 286,000 troopsIn the Guangxi battlefield: at least 100,000 troopsCasualties and losses 100,000 combat and non-combat deaths heavy materiel lossesWestern Claim:500,000–600,000 casualties (according to "China's Bitter Victory: War with Japan, 1937-45")Armies totalling 750,000 'destroyed' or put out of action according to Cox130,000 killed in actionChinese Claim: 300,000+ combat casualtiesOperation Ichi-Go (Japanese: 一号作戦, romanized: Ichi-gō Sakusen, lit.'Operation Number One') was a campaign with several battles between the Imperial Japanese Army forces and the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, fought from April to December 1944.

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