OT: Museum for Americans fighting in China (WWII)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4KWAICYTp8&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWrIJHhoXU8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcmTUrRoYU4&feature=related

a private museum in Cheng Du.

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1. pictures of flying tiger or AVG pilots engraved on tiles and displayed on the wall.

2. recovered wreckage of fighters and bombers.

tales of flying tigers,

flying over the "hump" or himalaya

bombing kyushu from cheng du (initial air raid of Japanese home islands)

Japanese gathered all their elite fighters from all theaters to guard home lands against B-29 bombers.

3 US pilots were murdered in wu han.

the largest bombing of Han Kou. Japan loss of air power in China.

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http://www.jc-museum.cn/cn/

there are cluster of museums in memory of Chinese resistance war against Japan.

one of them is dedicated to all US soldiers and generals that fought in China.

we will remember them forever.

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http://www.jc-museum.cn/cn/folk.asp?TPID=25

cluster of volks arts and cultures.

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http://www.jc-museum.cn/cn/war.asp?TPID=6

war memorial museums.

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http://www.jc-museum.cn/cn/war.asp?TPID=8

flying tiger memorial museum

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the curator is Fan Jian Chuan.

he managed to collect many artifacts and rare films.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caUQzur_ggw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXzVKo1MjzA&feature=related

in memory of chinese soldiers that fought in WWII.

including my father and many of my relatives.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvK7CKK4F6k&feature=related

general Chiang held a military meeting at lu shan for all generals and started the resistence war.

general zhang zhi zhong led defending battles at shanghai.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwTwPhQ2zEY&feature=related

general zhang ling fu led commando's and climbed a steep mountain and attacked Japanese positions from the rear near wu han. general xue yei main force attacked the front. 30,000 of 40,000 Japanese soldiers were killed in the campaigns.

general xue also defeated Japanese in chang sha. it was first in Japanese history that a whole regiment was almost wiped out and defeated.

general xue units were the most decorated. he defeated Japanese 3 times in Chang Sha during 2 years period.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMDV03uL-1g&feature=related

general sun li ren led 38th division 112 and 113 regiments, he used about 1000 men and defeated Japanese 6000 men and rescued british soldiers and civilian in Burma.

general sun used trees tied to trucks and jeeps and created a lot of flying dusts to confuse Japanese that huge army is coming.

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British prime minister Churchchill said China tied up 80% Japanese army. if China did not resist, the west may face more difficulties in fighting Japan.

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over 260 nationalist generals died.

over 3.8 million soldiers died.

all the graduates from huang pu military academy participated in the resistance war.

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nationalist led resistance war.

it is good that communists start to recognise true history pubicly.

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greatest respect to all that fought the battles 60 some years ago.

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the first resistance war song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDjkhExdsdQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQGjkufBdeE

most famous resistance war song

great wall ballad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wijilbBCgF4&feature=related

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPddgdmkXdY&feature=related

216 chinese leaders statues in the square.

marco polo bridge incident, on that day

1. Chiang was at summer retreat at lu shan. he was planning a meeting that invited representatives of all circles in the society to discuss how to deal with japanese full scale invasion.

2. Mao was writing 2 articles to prepare his red army.

3. si chuan warlords fighting among themself for years. they ceased fire and came to chong qing to be regrouped or reassigned units by general he yin ching.

japanese claimed that a soldier was missing previous nite during routine exercise

they wanted to enter wan ping city to search.

29th army fought with japanese invading army

Chiang ordered reinforcement from shi jia zhuang and bao ding to move toward marco polo bridge.

this meant that Chinese were not retreating and yielding anymore.

Mao annouced that this is the critical moment, red army is ready to be renamed nationalist revolutionary army and ready to move toward the front and fight Japanese.

all partied came together and united to protect homelands.

nationalist

communist

local warlords

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svnzZ6PoiBw&feature=related

marco polo bridge incident in july 7th, 1937

marked the beginning of full scale Chinese resistance.

actually, the conflicts started in 1931.

on the surface, china and japan had peace talks and agreements

under the surface, Japan increased its army, marine, naval air force build up in China steadily. a full scale invasion was imminent.

general song zhe yuan led 29th army and retreated to bao ding

on august 8th, 1937, Japanese army entered and paraded in pei ping.

general song eventually went to si chuan

he saw suffering of civilians and soldiers and was very depressed and died 3 years later.

29th army had da dao team or big broad sword team. da dao then became a standard military issue thruout the war.

at lu shan, Chiang held a meeting that also included communist representatives secretly

on july 17th, 1937, Chiang delivered the famous speech that we are the critical moment, that there are no difference in south or north of the land, there are no difference in being young or old, every one has the responsibility in defending the home land and resist Japanese. every one has the determination to sacrifice everything.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4cjqLJkG4s&feature=related

all local warlords came to nan jing and had a national defense meeting

all local armies will stand with central army and fight against Japan.

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in opening ceremony of the statues square that included 216 leaders from 1931 to 1945.

Mao's daughter Li Ming led everyone and took a bow to all the statues.

there are many nationalist generals.

curator fan asked Li if it is appropiate, since they are communists.

Li said, yes it is appropiate to pay tribute since they are all our seniors.

more than half century has gone since then.

as the time goes by

memory fades

history is more clear.

we shall all remember all the martyrs and men that fought the war when China was at its most dangerous moment.

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