關於雲南鬆山戰役紀念碑

本年度是抗日戰爭勝利八十周年，不少人趁清明時節前往各地的抗日陣亡紀念碑或墓地向那些為國捐軀的英烈掃墓，並致敬意。

有網紅博主也趁機宣傳在雲南保山龍陵縣的鬆山戰役紀念碑內娃娃兵陣塑像作了過份的解讀，說是有7000多娃娃被強征入伍，1000餘娃娃兵陣亡。當然也有人搜集數據予以反駁，希望能還完及尊重曆史。據稱找不到數據及資料支持前者的說法。

剛好在澳洲早年的英文報紙上有來自戰地記者發的新聞及圖片，特供參考及與鬆山戰役紀念碑陵園內娃娃兵的衣物作一比較。

下麵是原文及圖片：

Young Chinese Soldiers

Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 - 1954), Friday 1 September 1944, page 3

Chinese youths, serving with the Chinese Sixth Army, carry supplies for the offensive against the Japanese m the Salween River area, Yunnan Province. Chinese women and children are doing their part in bringing defeat to the Japanese. Many of the best soldiers in the Chinese; Armies are youngsters in their teens. Chinese forces west of the Salween River drove toward a junction with U.S. Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell troops in Burma. Paying tribute to the Chinese Armies, Gen. Stilwell said, on July 17, 1944, that Chinese troops "have confounded their critics and delighted their friends by their steady determined advance which has gone on now for six months ... to a line that had once "seemed hopeless to attempt to reach".