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The bombing of Chungking
1938–43 — The wartime capital in the Sichuan gorges becomes the most-bombed city on earth to that date: over 200 raids, thousands dead in single nights, 4,000 suffocated in one tunnel shelter in June 1941. The government does not move again, and does not surrender. Remember the shelters.
This is one scene of Chapter 9 — Stalemate — Two Chinas at War in China in Revolution, 1911–1949.
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