Hainan Island Operation

When

Feb 1939

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

20.03° N, 110.32° E

Description

1939 Japanese campaign in the Second Sino-Japanese War

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Japanese campaign in the Second Sino-Japanese War

The Hainan Island Operation, or Kainan-tō sakusen (海南島作戦) in Japanese, was part of a campaign by the Empire of Japan during the Second World War to blockade the Guangdong mainland and prevent it from communicating with the outside world and from receiving imports of much-needed arms and materials.

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