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Japanese survivors of the Tongzhou Mutiny massacre, China, Aug 1937	Japanese troops celebrating victory at Lugou Bridge, Beiping, China, Jul-Aug 1937

Japanese troops in northern China, 1937	Japanese troops in northern China, 1937

Japanese troops in northern China, 1937	Japanese Type 92 light machine gun and crew in northern China, 1937

Japanese Type 92 light machine gun and crew in northern China, 1937	Japanese Type 92 machine gun and crew in northern China, 1937

Japanese Type 96 machine gun crew in China, 1937; seen in the 1 Sep 1937 issue of the Japanese publication Asahigraph	Japanese women stitching a senninbari (thousand stitch belt) for a male member of the family who was in the military and was being shipped out to China, 1937

USS Augusta off Pudong Point, Shanghai, China, during Second Battle of Shanghai, Aug 1937	Troops of the Chinese 88th Division marching toward Shanghai, China, circa early Aug 1937; note German M1935 helmets

Crossley armored cars of the Japanese Shanghai Naval Landing Force, Shanghai, China, 10 Aug 1937	Japanese troops guarding a section of a railway near the village of Changxindian, Hebei Province, China, west of the city of Beiping, 10 Aug 1937; seen in the 1 Sep 1937 issue of the Japanese publication Asahigraph

Gridley-class destroyer USS Gridley underway, 11 Aug 1937	USS Permit underway during shakedown period, 11 Aug 1937

Palace and Cathay Hotels damaged by accidental bombing, Shanghai, China, 14 Aug 1937, photo 1 of 7	Japanese soldiers guarding a Chinese prisoner of war at bayonet point, south of Yuepu, Shanghai, China, Aug 1937; note Japanese censor's disallow stamp

Yura in Shanghai, China, 18 Aug 1937, photo 1 of 2	Yura in Shanghai, China, 18 Aug 1937, photo 2 of 2