JAPAN’S WAR IN CHINA: OPERATION “ICHI-GO”

APRIL— DECEMBER 1944 23 JUNE 1944 Start of the Soviet operation “Bagration” that destroys German Army Group Centre in a few weeks. 20 JULY 1944 Failed attempt by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to assassinate HItler at his headquarters. 17 AUGUST 1944 Red Army units reach the German border in East Prussia. 25 AUGUST 1944 Paris is abandoned by the Germans after a week of fighting by the French resistance. 13 OCTOBER 1944 Red Army enters the Latvian capital RIga. 20 OCTOBER 1944 US 6th Army invades the island of Leyte in the Philippines. 11 NOVEMBER 1944 US Navy begins bombardment of Japanese island of Iwo Jima. The military situation in China in the later stages of the war was one of great confusion. The Nationalists under Chiang Kaishek could see…

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