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Tango0124 Sep 2014 10:59 p.m. PST

" October 1938:
Japanese troops enter northern Hunan, Province.

11 October 1938:
Yueyang falls. Soon, Chinese and Japanese armies face off along the Xinqiang River just outside of Changsha. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek lacks confidence in his army's ability to hold Changsha, so he decides to burn the entire city to the ground so the Japanese will gain nothing in its taking.

10 November 1938:
Arson teams are organized and dispatched throughout the city. They are ordered to set the fires once a signal fire is set off on the top of the Tianxin Building in southwest Changsha…"

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creativeguy25 Sep 2014 7:24 a.m. PST

An interesting read for me. My daughter was adopted from Changsha summer 2013. I enjoyed my stay there.

Tango0125 Sep 2014 10:53 a.m. PST

Glad you enjoyed it my friend.

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