Air Itam - Memorial Obelisk - Penang, Malaysia.
N 05° 24.337 E 100° 16.958
47N E 642105 N 597651
The Penang Overseas Chinese Anti-War Memorial Park - A memorial obelisk to the Chinese people of Penang who died under the Japanese Occupation in World War II. Located at Air Itam, Penang Island, Malaysia.
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Location: Malaysia
Date Posted: 06/03/2017
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Air Itam - A small park that is dedicated to the fallen of World War II. The area around the Overseas Chinese Anti-War Memorial Park was upgraded into the Air Itam War Memorial Park with the installation of interpretive plaque and other memorial features.
"The Overseas Chinese Anti-War Memorial Park is in the form of a 45-foot-tall obelisk. There are 7 steps on each side of the base. This is to commemorate the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which took place on the Lugou Bridge, also called Marco Polo Bridge, about 15 km outside Beijing, marking the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) on 7 July, 1937. The memorial was unveiled by Mr Lim Lean Teng, who served as supervisory chairman of the China Relief Fund, at 11:00 am on 11 November, 1951. The date 11 November was chosen as it was the 33rd anniversary of the end of the First World War.
The Overseas Chinese Anti-War Memorial Park - Located at the Air Itam Roundabout in Air Itam, is a memorial to the Chinese people of Penang who died under the Japanese Occupation in World War II. The whitewashed obelisk especially commemorates the over 700 who were buried nearby. They consist of martyrs who joined the anti-Japanese resistance movement in China in the 1930s and 40s, mainly Chinese machinery workers from Penang, as well as victims of Japanese atrocities during the occupation.
The Overseas Chinese Anti-War Memorial Park commemorates the many who loss their lives under Japanese atrocities during the Second World War. Buried under the memorial are the remains of some 800 incomplete skeletons exhumed from various sites, among them Coombe Hill in Gelugor, Thean Teik Estate, Vale of Tempe and Batu Ferringhi. The remains were cremated and the ashes, in sixty-six bags, were then buried beneath the memorial." Text Source: (
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