Armed Chinese members of the People’s Liberation Army Militia (Min Ping) are photographed in Yan’an, while supporting the Eighth Route Army, National Revolutionary Army, who are battling the Japanese in the area. The militia was made up of Chinese civilians who were not already conscripted into or had joined the National Revolutionary Army due to their productive jobs as farmers, factory workers, laborers and other jobs indispensable to the Chinese war effort. Yan’an, Shaanxi, Shaanbei, Republic of China.
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