Want China Times
Date: 2015-09-04
By: CNA
Taiwan’s government and private sector have each published a book to
Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou offers incense to plaques of ROC servicemen who were sent to Myanmar in WWII during a ceremony held at the National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine in Taipei, Sept. 3. (Photo/CNA)
commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Chinese War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-1945).
Academia Historica has published a book that records the efforts of Republic of China servicemen who were sent to Myanmar as part of a Chinese expeditionary force to fight alongside troops from the United States and the United Kingdom 1942-1945.
The battles there helped secure the Allied Forces’ victory in World War II, Academia Historica said.
It said the Chinese expedition was sent by the Nationalist government to support the Allied forces fighting against Japan in Myanmar and to protect the supply delivery route that ran from southwestern China to Myanmar. [FULL STORY]
