86 years ago today, on August 30, 1939 (July 16, 1939 in the lunar calendar), the Japanese army suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Nomenham. On August 30, 1939, the Japanese army suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Nomenham. The main Japanese army, the 23rd Division of the 6th Army and a part of the 7th Division, were almost completely wiped out under the siege of the Soviet-Mongol army under the command of Zhukov. The head of the 23rd Division of the Japanese army, Lieutenant General Komatsubara, broke through the siege with only a few hundred men. The Japanese army suffered more than 50,000 casualties (one said 28,000) in the Battle of Nomenham, and the Su-Mongol army suffered nearly 20,000 casualties. Japanese troops in the Battle of Nomenham