History
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The Chinese Sailors Who Fought at D-Day—And Almost Vanished From History
TLDR: A 2015 Hong Kong apartment demolition yielded a forgotten diary revealing that 24 Chinese naval officers—volunteers who trained with the Royal Navy—fought alongside Allied forces on D-Day, their existence erased by Cold War politics and institutional bias until a 13,000-character firsthand account forced historians to redraw the boundaries of WWII’s most mythologized battle. "Saw… read more