Talk:General Discussion/@comment-24980562-20150422005401/@comment-16545476-20150422194748

You sure don't bother to do a bit of homework do you......

During 1937 the ROCN still operates around 70 WWI era warships. The more modern ships was sunken by the IJN's Chinese Side Fleet (CSF) in the next nine months, while the rest was sunk by the ROCN to form a blockade in the Yang Tze River while retreating in land. After that, the ROCN mainly operated smaller river boats and could be considered neutralized until the end of the war. The IJN did saw an active amount of naval warfare in the coasts of China during 1937, even though it seems unimaginable to westerners that there were naval combats in the area. The CSF operated in China until 1941 and the newer ships in the fleet was transfered back to Japan to fight with the Americans, while the older ones remained.

On the other hand, there was an considerable amount of air battles exchanged between the ROCAF and the IJA/IJN. For example the crews on Kaga, Ryuujou and Houshou all participated in the Shanghai Incident (1932) and learned quite a lot from those experiences. (It was also that particular battle that made the pilots on Kaga the elites of the IJN.)  During 1937 in the Battle of Shanghai, even though severely out numbered, the ROCAF still managed to shoot down 85 planes and damaging 51 surface vessels before retreating away. And I'm not going to keep on mentioning other air battles they fought with the IJA and IJN air crews throughout the course of the war.

Even though the Chinese usually operated with some outdated equipments, it wasn't really a free-of-threat one-sided free-for-all campaign for both the IJA and the IJN. Though I liked to simplify the Sino-front as "ROC getting it's ass kicked by Japan", the war itself was far more complexed then that and a huge number of stories were buried in history just because it wasn't that important to the West. Both aerial and naval warefares during 1932, 1937~1941 were those kind of stories that was forgotten in history. But it's not something I should be rambling about on the recent update page so I might as well give it a break.