8 Sep 1937
China
China
- Liu Cuigang, flying a Hawk III fighter, claimed to have destroyed two Japanese tanks in Shanghai, China with bombs and claimed a Japanese fighter shot down. ww2dbase [Second Battle of Shanghai | Liu Cuigang | Shanghai | CPC]
- Cen Zeliu dropped small bombs at Japanese armored cruiser Izumo near Shanghai, China; the bomb missed the target. ww2dbase [Second Battle of Shanghai | Cen Zeliu | Shanghai | CPC]
- Tenryu entered Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Japan to receive additional Type 92 7.7-millimeter machine guns. ww2dbase [Sasebo Naval Arsenal | Tenryu | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]
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