Army Cavalrymen

(Top photo) Chinese Red Army cavalrymen in Yenan (Yan'an), Shensi (Shaanxi). {Bottom photo}Three scenes along the motor roads, the "life line" of China which runs north-south through Hupeh (Hubei) Province. The battlefied was to the east far across the Han River where the Chinese confined the Japanese in the Ta Hung Mountain Range. In May, 1940 the Japanese broke through to this highway - which is perfect for a mechanized Army like the Japanese and disastrous for the Chinese.