WWII remains found
By Li Xinran |
September 3, 2010, Friday
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REMAINS of more than 3,000 Kuomintang soldiers sacrificed during the war of resistance against the Japanese were dug out recently in a building site in Hubei Province in central China.
White bones of the dead were exposed after rainfall washed off mud in a pit at the site in Hubei's Yichang City.
Workers picked up the bones, believed to belong to soldiers of the 4th Reserve Division of KMT 75th Corps, and put them at a safe place, China News Service reported yesterday.
The area had been home to a military hospital, said 73-year-old Qin Debiao. Many wounded soldiers died of insufficient medicine or treatment because of Japanese blockades, the report said.
According to veterans' memories and words on a broken tombstone, at least 3,000 KMT soldiers died in fierce battles. In one sneak raid in winter of 1941 by the division's 10th regiment, only 13 out of more than 1,000 soldiers survived the bloodbath, including three seriously wounded.
White bones of the dead were exposed after rainfall washed off mud in a pit at the site in Hubei's Yichang City.
Workers picked up the bones, believed to belong to soldiers of the 4th Reserve Division of KMT 75th Corps, and put them at a safe place, China News Service reported yesterday.
The area had been home to a military hospital, said 73-year-old Qin Debiao. Many wounded soldiers died of insufficient medicine or treatment because of Japanese blockades, the report said.
According to veterans' memories and words on a broken tombstone, at least 3,000 KMT soldiers died in fierce battles. In one sneak raid in winter of 1941 by the division's 10th regiment, only 13 out of more than 1,000 soldiers survived the bloodbath, including three seriously wounded.
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