Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every nation in wartime derives inspiration from its own peculiar tales of heroism. Some are legend, some are fact. Legend or fact, a tale was told by the Chinese last week of Chen Chung-chu, a guerrilla leader in the never-never land of North China behind the Japanese lines...
...officer of General Li Tsung-jen, Chen needled the Japanese so spectacularly that they made a special expedition...
...Captured General Chen Cheng...
...Chen Cheng is also a skillful soldier. The measure of his talent is that the Generalissimo chose him to defend the Gorges -which means defending Chungking, which means defending Chiang. Last summer, when Ichang fell, Chen Cheng was blamed by some for the bad strategy which lost that key city. He then gave up his comfortable job in Chungking as Chief of the Army's Political Training Department and went to the front, publicly vowing not to return until he had retaken Ichang...
...Chen's Men. If Chen undertakes an offensive without more guns it will be because his troops could not possibly have more guts. China's best troops belie all the old saws about Chinese cowardice and indifference. They are husky, shaven-pated sons of the soil who, when they must, storm concrete casemates with nothing but hand grenades, who like better than anything else to close with the Japanese hand to hand...