Japan
Imperial Japanese Navy
3rd Fleet : Admiral Hasegawa Kiyoshi
- Flagship: Izumo (Izumo class armoured cruiser)
- Notoro(seaplane tender)
- 8 Nakajima E8N Reconnaissance float aircraft
- 11th (Gunboat) Sentai - Rear Admiral Tanimoto Umataro
- Flagship: Yaeyama (minelayer)
- Ataka(Gunboat)
- Katada (Gunboat)
- Sumida(Gunboat)
- Kuri (Momi class destroyer)
- Hozu (Gunboat)
- Futami (Gunboat)
- Kotaka (Gunboat)
- Tsuga (Momi class destroyer)
- Hasu (Momi class destroyer)
- Atami (Gunboat)
- Seta (Gunboat
- Toba (Gunboat)
- Hira (Gunboat)
- 8th (Cruiser) Sentai - Rear Admiral Nagumo
- Flagship: Kinu
- Natori
- Yura
- 1st (Destroyer) Sentai - Rear Admiral Yoshida
- Sendai
- Shanghai Special Naval Landing Force - Rear Admiral Denshichi Okawachi
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- 1st Battalion - Lt. Cdr. Uroku Hashimoto
- 2nd Battalion - Lt. Shigeshi Sano
- 3rd Battalion - Lt. Shegeru Ito
- 4th Battalion - Artillery unit, Disbanded at the outbreak of war, guns were dispersed to the infantry units.
- 9th Battalion - Lt. Cdr. Torashige Tsukioka
- Prior to hostilities: Total force (2,500 men)
- Special Naval Landing Force reinforcements as of 8/1/37 from 3rd Fleet
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- 8th Sentai NLF
- 1st Destroyer Sentai NLF
- 3rd Destroyer Sentai NLF
- Izumo NLF
- Reservists and volunteers (5000 men)
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- 1st Reserve Infantry Regiment
- 2nd Reserve Infantry Regiment
- ( Armed reservists were men in civilian clothes distinguished by a brassard)
- Notes:
- Third Fleet operated in Central and South China waters.
- 11th Squadron evacuated Japanese civilians from the interior to Shanghai during July and early August.
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