Stilwell Road Museum to open with WWII relics

The Stilwell Road Museum has completed construction and is about to welcome visitors with more than 5,000 World War II relics, including Dodge trucks, Willys jeeps and road construction tools.

Linking the northeastern Indian town of Ledo and Yunnan's provincial capital Kunming via Tengchong, the 1,726-km-long road was named after American WWII General Joseph W. Stilwell.

As part of the museum-themed block in Tengchong City, Southwest China's Yunnan province, the museum covers 10,716 square meters and will showcase items of Zhou Shicai, a local collector, as most of its collection, with additional texts, photos and video archives.

"These relics are valuable legacies of the Stilwell Road and were really hard to find," Zhou said.

Dubbed a "lifeline for the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression," more than 50,000 tonnes of supplies were transported to battlefields in China during the war by the Stilwell Road.