A front-line girl of the New Life Movement.

Women of China's Front Line

Wherever there was fighting the Chinese women rallied to the way emergency services, evacuating women and children from villages in the battle area, organizing the transport and after-care of wounded, sewing and washing for front-line troops, and arranging entertainment and recreation.  In this photo, a member of the American Baptist Surgical Unit tends a soldier's wounds.

chinese nationalist army soldiers using rifles and a grenades during the battle of shanghai (july 1937)