This Chinese soldier, age 10, with heavy pack, is a member of an army division boarding a plane returning them to China, following the capture of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myitkyina" class="extiw" title="en:Myitkyina">Myitkyina</a> airfield, Burma, under the  allied command of US Major General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Merrill" class="extiw" title="en:Frank Merrill">Frank Merrill</a>, May 1944. Chinese and allied troops had earlier crossed through the treacherous jungle of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumon_Bum_Mountains" class="extiw" title="en:Kumon Bum Mountains">Kumon Bum Mountains</a> before attacking Japanese troops to the south. Exhaustion and disease led to the early evacuation of many Chinese and allied troops before the coming assault on Myitkyina town.
US Army Signal Corps
12/05/1944
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