![Do people in mainland China still think the 8th Route Army (Red Army) was the primary force against the Japanese during WWII while the KMT stood on the sideline? - Quora Do people in mainland China still think the 8th Route Army (Red Army) was the primary force against the Japanese during WWII while the KMT stood on the sideline? - Quora](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-64e381068ae0e851047e4460a74aec6c.webp)
Do people in mainland China still think the 8th Route Army (Red Army) was the primary force against the Japanese during WWII while the KMT stood on the sideline? - Quora
![Shaanxi province (China), Eighth Route Army soldiers with machine gun display - AGSL Digital Photo Archive - Asia and Middle East - UWM Libraries Digital Collections Shaanxi province (China), Eighth Route Army soldiers with machine gun display - AGSL Digital Photo Archive - Asia and Middle East - UWM Libraries Digital Collections](https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/api/singleitem/image/agsphoto/15400/default.jpg)
Shaanxi province (China), Eighth Route Army soldiers with machine gun display - AGSL Digital Photo Archive - Asia and Middle East - UWM Libraries Digital Collections
julius.colorization - ighth Route Army soldier photographed eating a meal, Shaanxi province, China 1944. The Eighth Route Army was created from the Chinese Red Army in 1937, when the Chinese Communists and
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Carl Zha on X: "A machine gunner of the Communist Eighth Route Army in 1937 after outbreak of full Japanese invasion of China. colorized. https://t.co/4B50Wd7jP2" / X
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