A descendant of a soldier who was killed in Myanmar while fighting the Japanese during World War II sheds tears while visiting the Dianxi Anti-Japanese Memorial Hall in Yunnan province. Descendants of expeditionary soldiers and volunteers arrived in Myitkyina on Wednesday morning. They will take remains of the 347 soldiers home on Thursday, November 5, 2015. This is the largest collection of such remains ever to be returned. It will arrive in southwest China’s Yunnan province on Thursday. In 1942, China sent 100,000 expeditionary soldiers to Myanmar and India to fight the Japanese forces with the Allies. Nearly half of them were killed or injured.(Photo/CFP)
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