7. Ichi-Go, 1944 (1.3 million casualties)
The Operation Ichi-Go, which resulted in almost 1.3 million casualties, was launched by the Japan on April 19, 1944. Japan was attemping to take control of the railroad between Beiping and Hong Kong, as well as of the Allied airfields in southern China, from where US forces were launching the planes that were bombing the Japanese homeland and its ports. The other objective was to destroy the food supplies and crops in order to worsen the already bad food crisis in China. The success of the Japanese forces at the end of the operation was, however, marginal, as the US forces still remained the ability to bomb Japan from Saipan and other Pacific bases.
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