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Location
Island province off the southern coast of China. This is the smallest province of China, comprising of two hundred islands scattered among three archipelagos off the southern coast, all but three percent of its land mass is on Hainan Island.
Wartime History
Occupied by the Japanese in 1939, Chinese
Communists and the Li natives fought a vigorous guerrilla campaign
against
the Japanese occupation of 1939-45, but in retaliation over one
third of the male population were killed by the Japanese. After
the Japanese surrender in 1945 the Nationalist Party re-established
control, and Hainan was one of the last parts of China to fall
to the Communists when the Nationalists withdrew in 1950.
Samah (Sanya)
Located on the southern coast of Hainan Island, along Samah Bays. Also known as: Sanya, Yai-hsien,San-ah,Yehsien,San-ya-chiang-shih,Samah,Ya Xian,San-ya-chiang,Sama,Ya-hsien,San-ya-chen.
American Missions Against Samah
May 4, 1943 - April 2, 1945
Samah Airfield (Samah Bay Airfield)
Used by the Japanese Navy during the war
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Last Updated
October 1, 2009
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