Hainan Island Operation

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Hainan Island Operation
partof= the Second Sino-Japanese War


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date=February 1939
place=Hainan
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territory=
result= Japanese victory
combatant1=flagicon|Japan|naval Imperial Japanese Navy, Japan
combatant2=flagicon|ROC National Revolutionary Army, China
commander1=flagicon|Japan|naval Vice Adm.Kondo Nobutake
commander2=flagicon|ROC Wang Yi
strength1= ?
strength2= ?
casualties1= ?
casualties2= ?

The Hainan Island Operation was part of a campaign by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War to blockade China to prevent it from communicating with the outside world and importing needed arms and materials. Control of Hainan Island would provide a base to make the blockade of Guangdong province more effective. At this time the coast to French Indochina was part of Guangdong province. It would also provide airbase that would permit stikes at the routes into China from French Indochina and Burma.

Source

* [http://ibiblio.org/pha/monos/144/144chap4.html#Operations%20against%20China%20during%201939 Japanese Monograph No. 144: POLITICAL STRATEGY PRIOR TO OUTBREAK OF WAR PART I, Prepared by MILITARY HISTORY SECTION HEADQUARTERS, ARMY FORCES FAR EAST, DISTRIBUTED BY OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, Chapter 4, Operations against China during 1939] Pg 46-47.
* 中国抗日战争正面战场作战记 China's Anti-Japanese War Combat Operations
** Author : Guo Rugui, editor-in-chief Huang Yuzhang
** Press : Jiangsu People's Publishing House
** Date published : 2005-7-1
** ISBN 7214030349
** Online in Chinese [http://www.wehoo.net/book/wlwh/a30012/A0170.htm#]
*** [http://www.wehoo.net/book/wlwh/a30012/04831.htm 第七部分：相持阶段前期的作战海南岛作战 1] Hainan Island battles