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tangolima · December 14, 2020, 09:43 PM

All you said is mostly true, except that chicom didn't do jack. KMT did the heavy lifting. The communists just sheltered themselves to get stronger, and fooled the Americans, so that they could seize power after the war. Look at the number of people who died in action, overwhelmingly KMT, officers and enlisted. But that's for some other time.

That grandfather was my mother's father. His cousin, my mother's uncle, was studying at St. John college in Shanghai. He volunteered when the Japanese invaded Shanghai, and became 2nd lieutenant. He remembered the Americans fighting with them. He remembered the flying tigers defending Kunming.

On my father's side, 2 uncles were officers. One died of dieses. One was missing.

Grandfather didn't talk much about the war. He told me those bits when he was half drunk. Maybe he said more, but that is what I remember.

-TL

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December 14, 2020, 09:43 PM	#502
tangolima Senior Member Join Date: September 28, 2013 Posts: 3,825	All you said is mostly true, except that chicom didn't do jack. KMT did the heavy lifting. The communists just sheltered themselves to get stronger, and fooled the Americans, so that they could seize power after the war. Look at the number of people who died in action, overwhelmingly KMT, officers and enlisted. But that's for some other time. That grandfather was my mother's father. His cousin, my mother's uncle, was studying at St. John college in Shanghai. He volunteered when the Japanese invaded Shanghai, and became 2nd lieutenant. He remembered the Americans fighting with them. He remembered the flying tigers defending Kunming. On my father's side, 2 uncles were officers. One died of dieses. One was missing. Grandfather didn't talk much about the war. He told me those bits when he was half drunk. Maybe he said more, but that is what I remember. -TL Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk Last edited by tangolima; December 14, 2020 at 10:08 PM.