China in WW2

Eighty Years Ago: Asia Pacific, April 30 – May 6, 1942

• By Peter Harmsen
• 9 May, 2022
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April 30, 1942: Japanese Navy dispatches Shokaku, two other aircraft carriers, on mission to seize Port Moresby in New Guinea

May 1, 1942: Japanese Army seizes strategically important city of Mandalay, Burma

May 2, 1942: Japanese and British-led troops in vicious combat near Shweli river, Burma

May 3, 1942: Japanese force under command of Vice Admiral Shima Kiyohide invades island of Tulagi north of Guadalcanal

May 4, 1942: Carrier-based US planes attack newly disembarked Japanese troops on Tulagi, Solomon Islands

May 5, 1942: Japanese troops land on US-held island of Corregidor in the Philippines

May 6, 1942: Japanese forces seize US-held island of Corregidor in the Philippines