Color of Youth

On November 8 1937 Taiyuan fell and the army retreated south to Linfen For a time this Jinnan town became the center of the War of Resistance in Shanxi and even North China At this time a special formation unit of the Eighth Route Army the Eighth Route Army Academy was established in Liucun Town Linfen In more than one hundred days more than six hundred bloody youths cast into steel in this antiJapanese war furnace