Schematic plans · The Manchurian Incident (1938-1939)
Battle of Lake Khasan
- 31 July – 11 August 1938
- 3 recorded engagements
The CAA Database of Battles records this battle not as one action but as 3 engagements, each between particular divisions or brigades over a few days. Each has its own schematic replay. Together they cover only the forces listed here, which may be a part of those that fought, so the totals below are for these engagements, not for the battle.
The engagements in time
31 Jul1 Aug2 Aug3 Aug4 Aug5 Aug6 Aug7 Aug8 Aug9 Aug10 Aug11 Aug12 Aug
Bars in the attacker's colour:JapanUSSR
Losses in these engagements
- Japan
- 1,319 lostin 3 engagements
- USSR
- 4,750 lostin 3 engagements
Strengths are not added up: the same divisions fight engagement after engagement, so a sum would count the same men many times.
The engagements
| No. | Engagement | Dates | Attacker | Defender | Losses | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Changkufeng-Shachaofeng | 31 Jul – 31 Jul | Jap I/75th Inf Regt(+)1,410 men | Sov 59th Border Guard Unit(-)1,460 men | 178 / 350 | Japan won |
| 2. | Hill 52-Shachaofeng | 2 Aug – 3 Aug | Sov 40th Rifle Div(-)(+)4,000 men | Jap 19th Inf Div(-)3,010 men | 400 / 41 | Japan won |
| 3. | Changkufeng-Hill 52 | 6 Aug – 11 Aug | Sov Special Far Eastern Army(-)20,000 men | Jap 19th Inf Div(+)8,000 men | 4,000 / 1,100 | Japan won |
CDB90 (US Army Concepts Analysis Agency, 1990), tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold; data under ODC-BY 1.0. Records are grouped by the Wikipedia article the edition links them to.