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current01:14, 22 December 2016Thumbnail for version as of 01:14, 22 December 20162,366 × 2,916 (3.43 MB)127.0.0.1 (talk)<p>This Chinese soldier, age 10, with heavy pack, is a member of an army division boarding a plane returning them to China, following the capture of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myitkyina" class="extiw" title="en:Myitkyina">Myitkyina</a> airfield, Burma, under the allied command of US Major General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Merrill" class="extiw" title="en:Frank Merrill">Frank Merrill</a>, May 1944. Chinese and allied troops had earlier crossed through the treacherous jungle of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumon_Bum_Mountains" class="extiw" title="en:Kumon Bum Mountains">Kumon Bum Mountains</a> before attacking Japanese troops to the south. Exhaustion and disease led to the early evacuation of many Chinese and allied troops before the coming assault on Myitkyina town. </p>
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