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Old 2015-09-04, 14:46   Link #14
Kakurin
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Originally Posted by KiraYamatoFan View Post
Not on this particular front though.
Even so it is pretty far-fetched to belittle the efforts by the common Chinese people who had to fight the Japanese with little more than third-world equipment by saying the Americans "did a hell lot more". I'm sure the troops Chiang Kai-shek sacrificed at Shanghai in a vain attempt to gain the world's (and especially US and British) attention in 1937 are bowing their heads to their American saviours. The Americans contributed a lot because they could do more with their gigantic potential. Meanwhile the pre-industrial Chinese had to hold out alone for over four years before the Japanese occupation of French Indochina finally convinced the Americans that the Japanese were becoming a threat to American interests in East Asia.
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