Chinese veterans recall the forgotten history

World Today

Chinese troops didn’t just fight against Japanese invasion on their own land. A hundred thousand of them were sent to China’s neighbor Myanmar, today’s Burma, during World War II. CCTV’s Barnaby Lo filed this report.

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  • Turns out they were headed to Myanmar – then known as Burma. It was 1942, and the Japanese had invaded the country. China had a lot at stake as Burma was crucial to its supply route.