Japan-Soviet/mongolian border clashes [1932-1939]

1939 Nomonchan in other sources also known as Chalchyn-Gol. A provoked border skirmish on the Mongolian border resulted in a Soviet siege strike that destroyed the 6th Army of the Japanese Empire. Part I outlines the initial situation and describes I. and II. stage of the conflict.

Maps to the first part.

Part II. Describes III. decisive stage of the conflict.

Maps to III. stage of the conflict

Part III. deals with the aviation side of the whole encounter.

Ace of the Japanese Air Force from the conflict near Nomonchan.

A limited border conflict initiated by the Japanese "Korean" army testing the strength of the Red Army in Primori.

In Western literature it is known more as the Battle of Chalchyn-Gol

Fighter aces of Japan at Nomonchan 1939 - also known as Chalchyn gol

Biography of a Soviet fighter and test pilot, a veteran of several conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to the fighting in Korea, in which the reported total number of victories in some sources reaches 135. The fact attempts to reveal this article.

Reasons why the knightly samurai of the early 20th century became a murderous soldier of World War II? When and why did the principles of "Bushida" disappear from the actions of the Japanese army? How did Japanese militarism develop and change in the first half of the 20th century?

Ace of the Japanese Air Force from the conflict near Nomonchan.

Ace of the Japanese Air Force from the conflict near Nomonchan.

Ace of the Japanese Air Force from the conflict near Nomonchan.

Ace of the Japanese Air Force from the conflict near Nomonchan.

Ace of the Japanese Air Force from the conflict near Nomonchan.

A brief biography of the most successful fighter ace of the Japanese Air Force. He achieved his score of 58 air victories in the Nomonchan conflict.

In 2010, a Russian expedition searching the battlefield in the area of the Chalchyn River for the remains of Soviet soldiers found fragments of the wreck of a Polikarpov I-15bis fighter. The machine was identified as an aircraft serial number 3934. It belonged to the 4th Squadron of the 70th IAP and was shot down on June 22, 1939 as one of more than 60 machines of this type, written off by the Soviet Air Force during the known conflict. The found remains of the fallen pilot, k.-n. V.I. Jurecký, were buried in Chojbalsan, Mongolia on August 2, 2010.