A display of some tasty equipment captured by the Nationalist 57th infantry division during the Shanggao campaign in early/mid 1941.

For its admirable performance during this operation, the 57th would earn the name of the 'Roaring Tigers (虎贲)'.

But the 57th is most well known for its participation in the defense of Changde in 1943. The division of 8,315 soldiers and officers held out against two Japanese divisions with a combined strength of over 30,000 troops, which were supported by armour, heavy artillery, air support, and even poison gas.

The 57th held out for 11 days and nights, inflicting over 4000 casualties on the Japanese. 83 of the division members survived.

March 1941 China 

Captured Japanese weapons

chinese nationalist army soldiers usinng a rangefinder and a binoculars searching for japanese bombers (china 1939)

rangefinder and binoculars 

Xie Jinyuan was a Chinese nationalist army military leader and war hero. he becamed famous for commanding a regiment of the 88th division during the defence of the sihang warehouse during the battle of shanghai, he was assasinated in 1941 by 4 of his own troops who were working for wang Jingwei's collaborationist government. More than 100,000 people turned up for his funeral and he was posthumously made a Major General of the National Revolutionary Army.