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The bombing of Chungking
1938–41 — Free China’s wartime capital endures years of terror bombing: thousands dead in shelters and firestorms. The city does not surrender. Remember the people under it.
This is one scene of Chapter 6 — China: The War Nobody Declared in The Road to War, 1931–1941.
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