The Chungking bombing

5th June 1941: One photograph serves to represent the suffering of the Chinese people in a long war against Japanese aggression

Some of the Christian churches in the pre-war city of Chungking. Chungking became the capital of the wartime nationalist Chinese government and was almost completely razed to the ground by Japanese bombing.

The Japanese invasion of China is the largest part of the jigsaw missing from the history of World War II, at least from a Western perspective. Eithe…