Battle of Shanghai

China. Picture from the archive of Mission Covenant Church of Sweden.

Fire at Pootung. By courtesy of Malcom Rosholt. China. Picture from the archive of Mission Covenant Church of Sweden.

China. Picture from the archive of Mission Covenant Church of Sweden.

Chinese, retreating in junks, fire a bridge. Making desperate efforts to harry the advancing Japanese, Chinese troops retreating in junks from Shanghai and fired a bridge across the Zah Hwei Creek. Picture from the archive of Mission Covenant Church of Sweden.

The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Special Naval Landing Forces troops in gas masks prepare for an advance in the rubble of Shanghai, China.

China. Picture from the archive of Mission Covenant Church of Sweden.

English: Chinese bombers were apparently trying to bomb the Japanese cruiser Izumo (Idzumo), when two bombs fell between the Cathay and Palace Hotels in Nanking Road. Approximately 400 people were killed or wounded. Known as “Bloody Saturday”. China. Picture from the archive of Mission Covenant Church of Sweden.

Smoke from burning cotton mills on Pootung, Shanghai with World War I victory memorial on left, USS Augusta (CA-31) center and bow of cruiser HMS Danae at right. Picture from the archive of Mission Covenant Church of Sweden.

China. Picture from the archive of Mission Covenant Church of Sweden.

1937 Japan navy flagship in Shanghai. 上海沖の海防艦「出雲」(1937年撮影)：日本海軍の第3艦隊(1937年10月以降は支那方面艦隊)旗艦で，排水量1万トン、主砲は20.3cm砲 連装２基４門の旧式艦。上海の日本人居留民保護を目的に，上海の中国軍を砲撃した。

A newspaper article on a Chinese poison gas attack during the Battle of Shanghai. Attack under poison gas shells - men and horses advanced wearing masks., 18 October, Correspondent Yoshio Hamano

Japanese troops attack Shanghai (September 1937)

A Japanese soldier slashes the throat of a Chinese prisoner during the Battle of Shanghai, several more bodies are visible. Late October.

The 16th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army lands at Baimaokou, north of Shanghai, in November 1937.

A series of annotated frames illustrating the first Japanese attacks on Sihang Warehouse, October 27

Photographs captured by Japanese forces positioned north of Sihang Warehouse; the Chinese flag is visible

Japanese naval infantry occupy the Sihang Warehouse, still smoking after the final artillery barrage

Japanese SNLF patrol outside on the North end of Sihang Warehouse

Devastation at the Cathay Hotel, Shanghai after a Chinese bomb hit at 4:27pm, 14 August 1937

U.S. Marines from U.S. Marine Corps Detachment Cavite embark on trucks after arriving in Shanghai on 20 August 1937 after arriving from Manila on SS President Hoover. These troops were the first U.S. reinforcements in large numbers for the 4th Marine Regiment which had the task of defending the U.S. ("C") Sector of the International Settlement from possible harm during the Sino-Japanese fighting there in the summer of 1937.

Smoke from burning cotton mills on Pootung, Shanghai with World War I victory memorial on left, USS Augusta (CA-31) center and bow of cruiser HMS Danae at right

The Shanghai North Railway Station, after months of fighting and bombing in 1937.

Zhabei on fire in downtown Shanghai.

The Sihang Warehouse following its capture by the Haji and Hayasaka Naval Landing Force Units

Nine men and officers of the Sihang Warehouse defenders who escaped to Chongqing via Nanjing, 1943