This is the order of battle for the January 28 incident, also known as the first Shanghai incident, in 1932. This was a brief war between the armies of the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan that occurred prior to the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Because the Japanese assumed the tactical initiative, their forces are listed first.

Japan

China

Shanghai Front
General Cai Tingkai

Notes

  1. ↑ SNLF units were sent after the incident happened.
  2. ↑ In civilian clothes, distinguished by a brassard
  3. ↑ In civilian clothes
  4. ↑ Patrolled the Woosung Railroad line
  5. ↑ Harassed vessels with machine-gun fire

Sources

Print

  • Cooke, Major Elliot .D. (Dec 1937). The Japanese attacks at Shanghai and the defense by the Chinese, 1931-1932. Military Review.

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