WAR CEMETERIES OF THE WORLD WAR-II AT LONGTONG

The Cemetery is some of the Chinese Nationalist Forces of General Issimo Chiang Kai-shek's K.M.T. Govt. of south China. The forces were deployed in this front during 1942-45 to push the Japanese out of Hukawag valley and onwards, and to clear the area from their advancement across the Chindwin river and as well as the link road(blocked by Japanese) between Lasho(in Burma) and the Ledo Road (Later came to known as Stilwell road) to maintain supply line.The entire operation was under the direct command of General Joseph William Stilwell.

The Longtong(earlier known as 3 mile, Stilwell road) cemetery was of those Chinese soldiers grievously wounded during operation and badly diseased by Malaria, Dysentary, Typhoid etc. and hospitalised in the then Chinese Hospital at Margherita where they died and laid in the burrial ground there. The camps of chinese were located at Lekhapani and onwards with a transit camp and godown at Margherita. So, the Cemeteries were laid around their camps.

THE DIGBOI WAR CEMETERY

The Digboi Cemetery of World War-II is of the the Europeans (mainly British) deployed in this Front for joint Operation with the Chinese and the Americans under General Stil Well. Some British Officers of OIL who might have died were also perhaps laid here, may be due to lack of adequate facilities to send the bodies back home. However, the bodies of the Americans and Negros were temporarily buried on a plot of high land retrieved in coffins and carried back to their homeland. But the bodies or the remains of the chinese were permanently laid here.

After the war was over the K.M.T. Govt. of SHIANG KAI used to send some grants once a year for the maintance of the Cementries. Grants were sent to the then Political Officer at Margherita in charge of the erstwhile Tirap Frontier Tract till the Communities of North China overthrew Kai Shek's KMT Govt.

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