Word: woosung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...central platform were General Shirakawa, commanding Japanese Expeditionary Forces to China, Ambassador to China Shigemitsu, Admiral Nomura, commanding the Japanese Third Fleet, and several other army and navy men, consuls and vice-consuls, Woosung Road bigwigs...
...Range Road (2) Boone Road (3) 120A Woosung Road...
Shanghai Campaign. To the mouth of the Yangtze steamed Japanese troopships with 55,000 aboard. Some 13,000 landed at various points near Woosung at the junction of the Whangpoo and Yangtze north of Shanghai; the rest, 42,000, stayed aboard waiting for an all-clear signal, while Japanese men-of-war made demonstrations along the shore. When the Japanese made their main landing in force, the first 700 men ashore, led by 70 picked troops who formed a shirodasukitai ("White Band of Death"), swept the first Chinese aside, pushed on towards what they thought was the second defense line...
...Japanese regulars were supposed to have been landed at Woosung, 16 miles away where Shanghai's Whangpoo River joins the Yangtze...
THREE HUMAN BOMBS "The highest and noblest monument of war was erected near Shanghai by the Three Human Bombs at Miaohangchen. At dawn on March 22, 1932, in a general attack on Miaohangchen a certain Japa nese Division, which marched from Woosung, encountered great obstacles through the stubborn resistance of the Chinese troops, which, firmly entrenched, defied the fierce onset of the Imperial Army. The Chinese soldiers raised strong defense works there during a month. A way had to be cut through these deadly obstacles for the Imperial troops. Three heroes of a Japanese sappers' corps, named Takeji Eshita...