History

I remember Croft!
China was one of the Allies...they held much of Asia under Japanese Imperial advance...China suffered horribly but stayed strong...i wish we stayed tight with them...

And after all their sacrifices, there are still Americans refusing to buy products made in China.

Months before Pearl Harbor and the US formal involvement in the war there was something called the AVG, American Volunteer Group. US military pilots where discharged from the military and sent to China to help in the fight against the Japanese. I believe they did not engage in actual combat missions until after the US declared war. The first group was the famous Flying Tigers.

Of course I remember, I was there when it started!

Even people who acknowledge China was involved tend to downplay it. China suffered more casualties than any country in the war except the USSR. They bogged down the bulk of the Japanese imperialist forces for years. Yet they tend to be treated as a sideshow, the "forgotten front". In the first place I think they were downplayed due to racism, and secondly they were downplayed because a few years later they became a communist country and the anti-communist Western countries didn't want to say anything positive about them for that reason.