A lorry doubles up as a makeshift ambulance

Shortly after the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, the cosmopolitan Shanghai city fell under the control of the Japanese forces. This photo depicts the aftermath of battle; a lorry doubles up as an ambulance in the war-torn city.

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