Yunhe County () is a county in the southwest of

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province, China. It is under the administration of the

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city.

History

Yunhe hosted the Provincial government of

from the summer of 1942 till Japan's surrender in 1945 as part of the chain effect of the

Pacific War The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War, was the theater of World War II that was fought in Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the vas ...

situation. To retaliate the

Attack on Pearl Harbor The attack on Pearl HarborAlso known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii ...

, the US navy launched the

Doolittle Raid The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II. It was the first American air operation to strike the Japa ...

against Japan's homeland on April 18, 1942. Sixteen bombers took off from the carrier ''Hornet'' 700 miles away from Tokyo, and planned to fly to Chuchow airfield (now spelled as

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, about 110 miles from Yunhe) in the Zhejiang Province after the raid. The raid was of little military consequence, but boosted American morale and showed that Japan was more open to air attack than had been supposed. Both as a revenge for the raid and to capture the local airfields to prevent another, the following month the Japanese launched a 100,000-strong offensive into the Chekiang and Kiangsi (now spelled as

and

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) provinces where they also employed biological warfare, slaughtering no fewer than 250,000 Chinese before the Japanese withdrew in September. It was at the onset of the

Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign The Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign or the Chekiang–Kiangsi campaign ( Japanese: 浙贛作戦, ), also known as Operation Sei-go ( Japanese: せ号作戦), was a campaign by the China Expeditionary Army of the Imperial Japanese Army under Shunroku ...

that the Provincial government made a further retreat southwest, finally settling in Yunhe for the rest of the war.

Administrative divisions

Subdistricts: *

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(浮云街道), Yuanhe Subdistrict (元和街道), Bailongshan Subdistrict (白龙山街道), Fenghuangshan Subdistrict (凤凰山街道) Towns: * Chongtou (崇头镇), Shitang (石塘镇), Jinshuitan (紧水滩镇) Townships: * Chishi Township (赤石乡),

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(雾溪畲族乡),

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(安溪畲族乡)

Climate

Notes

County-level divisions of Zhejiang Lishui {{Zhejiang-geo-stub