Halha River Bridge

The summer of 1939 saw a major border clash between Russian and Japanese forces over the line between the Mongolian People’s Republic and Manchukuo. Since the Japanese considered the Halha River the border, they felt a strong response was necessary when MPR and Soviet forces moved east of the …

1939-07-08

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The summer of 1939 saw a major border clash between Russian and Japanese forces over the line between the Mongolian People’s Republic and Manchukuo. Since the Japanese considered the Halha River the border, they felt a strong response was necessary when MPR and Soviet forces moved east of the river. This escalated into the largest conflict between the two countries since the Russo-Japanese War. Soviet engineers had thrown a number of bridges across the Halha to better supply their forces east of the river. Second Lt. Takayama was ordered to take his infantry platoon and a platoon of engineers to destroy one of these bridges. Two tanks from the 4th Tank Regiment were also assigned to assist in this mission.

Nomonhan, Manchukuo

The Battles of Khalkhin Gol were the decisive engagements of the undeclared Soviet–Japanese border conflicts fought among the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Japan and Manchukuo in 1939. The conflict was named after the river Khalkhin Gol, which passes through the battlefield. In Japan, the decisive battle of the conflict is known as the Nomonhan Incident after Nomonhan, a nearby village on the border between Mongolia and Manchuria. The battles resulted in the defeat of the Japanese Sixth Army.

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