Kwantung Army
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The Kwantung Army was a general army of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1919 to 1945.
Kwantung Army headquarters in Xinjing, Manchukuo
Kwantung Army on manoeuvres in 1941.
Repatriated Japanese soldiers returning from Siberia in 1946
Soviet invasion of Manchuria
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The Soviet invasion of Manchuria, formally known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation or simply the Manchurian Operation, began on 8 August 1945 with the Soviet Union's invasion of the Empi
Kwantung Army
…of the main Japanese fighting forces during the 1937–1945 Second Sino-Japanese War. In August 1945 Soviet troops engaged the Kwantung Army during the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. The Kwantung Army surrendered to the Soviets on 16 August 1945, the day after the surrender of Japan, and was subsequently dissolved. The Kwantung…
An IJA Type 95 Ha-Go of the Manchuria Tank School
Manchurian offensive
Soviet troops crossing into Manchuria, 9 August 1945
Soviet troops enter the city of Harbin following its liberation on 21 August 1945