Chinese infantry

Chinese tankers

Tanks on the march

General Sun Li-jen with General Joseph Stilwell in Burma, 1942.


Burma 1942

British and Chinese Soldiers in Burma 1942

British and Chinese Soldiers in Burma

Chinese troops man a M4 Sherman tank on the Burma Road, February - 1945.

On the Road to Burma

Chinese cadets in full battle dress, they favor the German type of steel helmet, on parade somewhere in China, on July 11, 1940. 

Chinese Military Cadets

No, not the human - the elephant.  This is Lin Wang (formerly Ah Mei) with his commanding officer, Nationalist Chinese general Sun Li-jen, photographed in Taiwan, 1947.  Lin Wang was among a group of 13 work elephants captured by Sun Li-jen's forces in a battle with the Japanese in Burma, 1943.  Up to then, they had been transporting loads, clearing logs, evacuating casualties and so on through enormously difficult jungle conditions for the Japanese; they had no problem with carrying on doing the same things for the Chinese.  Perhaps because of his impressive appearance (Ah Mei means "the Beautiful), his intelligence and calm temperament, the future Lin Wang became a particular favourite of the troops and something of a mascot in the Nationalist army.  Recalled to China at the end of WW2, Lin Wang and his surviving companions continued to work for the Guomentang army, their duties including giving circus performances to raise money for famine relief.  Most of the group were subsequently dispersed between mainland Chinese zoos.

When General Sun was sent to Taiwan to organize new Nationalist troops in 1947, he arrived with two elephants, one of whom was Lin Wang.  They continued their load-humping and log-lifting duties, in the course of which Lin Wang's last companion from Burma died.  Finally, in 1952, the army decided that Lin Wang should retire to Taipei Zoo.  By this time, his popularity had spread from the army to the Taiwanese population in general.  His "birthday", on the last Sunday of October, was celebrated by the nation.  Lin Wang enjoyed a long and happy retirement, dying of old and its various complications in 2003.  He is reckoned to have been 86 years old at the time, making him the oldest elephant to have died in captivity.  He was posthumously awarded honorary citizenship of Taipei".

The remains of Lin Wang were taxidermised, and enjoy an honored place on exhibition at Taipei Zoo.  Best regards, JR.

Old Soldier.

Chinese police sidecars in Shangai, 1932. DVX

Chinese sidecars

Shangai, 1932. Any info about the motorbikes?
DVX

Chinese police motorbikers

Chinese soldier

Female Soldier

Chinese Soldiers with a Type 24 Heavy Machine Gun (Chinese copy of MG 08). 

Machine Gun Team

China's top fighter ace Liu Chi-Sheng in his Polikarpov I-16 Type 5. Liu Chi-Sheng ended the war with 10 and 2 shared aircraft destroyed. 

Liu Chi-Sheng

Female soldier in the National Revolutionary Army (Nationalist Army).

1937 Battle of Shanghai 

Some Nationalist Chinese soldiers, showing some variety in uniform color. There are some similarities to Japanese uniforms. Some units showed heavily influence from the Germans, and many of the indigenously-made weapons were copies of German items. Late-war units were supplied with US gear.

Kuomintang Soldiers

Chinese Nationalist soldiers with captured Japanese chemical weapons

Captured chemical weapons

Chinese Soldiers with czech ZH-29 rifles in the 1930s

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Chinese Soldiers with ZH-29

National Revolutionary Army used Anti-aircraft warfare against Japanese aircrafts .

Second Sino-Japanese War

National Revolutionary Army in training .

National Revolutionary Army

Camouflaged Chinese Nationalist infantryman

Notice the length of his bayonet.

Unknown date or location

Rifleman

Chinese officers inspect captured Japanese weapons.

Wenzao River region, Shanghai, China, 1937

Captured weapons

two captured young soldiers in HuNanProvince

Chinese Forces

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