| Bloody Saturday | |
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| Part of Battle of Shanghai and the Second Sino-Japanese War | |
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| Location | The intersection of Avenue Edward Ⅶ, Yu Ya Ching Road and Boulevard de Montigny, near the Great World amusement centre, Shanghai |
| Coordinates | 31°13′50″N 121°28′26″E / 31.230628°N 121.473848°E |
| Date | August 14, 1937 |
| Target | Japanese cruiser Idzumo |
Attack type | Misdirected attack |
| Deaths | 1,200 |
| Injured | 1,400 |
Bloody Saturday,[1] also known as Black Saturday[2] and the Great World bombing,[3] was a misdirected attack on civilians by the Republic of China Air Force on 14 August 1937 during the Battle of Shanghai of the Second Sino-Japanese War. On the day, the Chinese Air Force, in an unsuccessful attempt to attack the Japanese cruiser Idzumo moored next to the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai, accidentally bombed the city centre, resulting in the deaths of some thousand civilians.[1]
- ^ a b "Victims of 'Bloody Saturday' bombing, Ave Edward VII, Shanghai, 14 August 1937". Historical Photographs of China. Archived from the original on 2024-06-11. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
- ^ Harmsen, Peter (2013-05-03). Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze. Casemate. ISBN 978-1-61200-167-8.
- ^ Henriot, Christian (2015). August 1937: War and the death en masse of civilians. War in History and Memory: An International Conference on the Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Victory for the War against Japan. Taipei, Taiwan: Academia Historica. pp. 492–568.