Zhang Zhaohong: General Stilwell needs Chinese Signal Corps

Zhang Zhaohong: General Stilwell needs Chinese Signal Corps Phoenix City Zhang Zhaohong During World War II, many Chinese soldiers in Alberta were unsung heroes. The current Overseas Chinese Federation...

Phoenix City Zhang Zhaohong

During the Second World War, many Chinese soldiers in Alberta were unsung heroes. Jack N. Yee, the father of current Overseas Chinese Federation Chairman David Yee, was one of them. Mr. Yu Wenjin, a senior overseas Chinese leader in Alberta, provided his Chinese name "Yu Yuquan"

Jack N. Yee joined the U.S. Army in February 1942. After training, he became a logistics sergeant in food.

In 1944, General Joseph Stilwell, who was the Chief of Staff of the Allied Forces in China Theater and Commander of the U.S. Army in the China-Burma-India Theater, needed Chinese soldiers who could speak and write and sent him to Kunming, China, to carry out communications between Chinese and American personnel. As a result, 400 Chinese soldiers were sent to Croder Army Camp in Missouri for communications training, and Jack N. Yee was one of them.

In July 1944, after completing training at Camp Crowder in Missouri, Jack N. Yee was sent to the 31437th signal service company (signal service company) together with 400 Chinese soldiers. After that, they took a boat through the Suez Canal and went to India via China. After reaching Bombay, India, he was posted to Calcutta. Among them, 300 well-trained Chinese soldiers were sent to China as correspondents, while Jack N. Yee and the remaining 99 people were sent to New Delhi, the capital of India, as backup. While they were waiting for orders, World War II was declared over. Jack N. Yee won 3 medals (Medal) in World War II and retired from the army on September 8, 1945.

There may be an error in the English attachment, because the information of the 31437th signal service company cannot be found. Only the number of the 3137th or 3147th signal service company can be found.

Information can be found on Camp Crowder in the English attachment. This is a training camp located in Mississippi. It was built in 1941-42 as a training center for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. The camp was named for General Northcloud, a prominent Missouri military lawyer who was born in 1859. During World War II, Camp Crowder was designated as the U.S. Army Signal Corps Replacement Training Center, an Army Corps logistics training center that trained thousands of clerks, radio operators, photographers and telegraph operators, as well as homing pigeon units for use on the battlefield.

>Crowder Camp Information http://newtoncountymotourism.org/camp-crowder-history.php

General Stilwell

>Burma Road

Joseph Stilwell Stilwell graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1904. After the Pearl Harbor incident, Stilwell was sent to China and served successively as chief of staff of the China Theater, commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army in the China-Burma-India Theater, deputy commander of the Southeast Asia Allied Forces Command, and commander of the Chinese Army in India.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army wanted to destroy China within three months. From the beginning of the war, they blocked China's coast and occupied the three major ports of Tianjin, Shanghai and Guangzhou. China's limited coastal industries were severely damaged. After cutting off the Longhai Line, Guangdong-Hankou Railway and other major transportation lines, the Japanese army occupied Guangxi and Vietnam and cut off the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway. After Germany attacked the Soviet Union, the northwest transportation line for Soviet aid supplies to China was also interrupted. By 1941, China's economy was on the verge of collapse, and the only foreign aid line China relied on for the survival of the war of resistance was the Burma Highway. However, the Japanese army sent bombers from Hanoi, Vietnam, to carry out numerous indiscriminate bombings on the Burma Highway. In order to ensure the foreign aid line for the Anti-Japanese War, the Nationalist Government established a volunteer air force to aid China in August 1941, headed by retired American military officer Chennault, in order to protect the Burma Highway and ensure the transportation of aid supplies to China. The United States also opened a hump route to transport strategic materials to the Chinese battlefield. However, for every ton of gasoline transported by the hump route, planes and pilots crashed.

The Nationalist Government established the China-India Survey Team in February 1941. General Stilwell led the team to India on foot, embarking on a long and arduous journey to open the China-India Highway. In December 1942, General Stilwell organized the military and civilians of China, the United States, Britain, India, and Myanmar to launch the Road Opening War in northern Burma and western Yunnan. The strategic intentions of the Japanese army were tit-for-tat with those of the Chinese and American Allied forces. The Chinese and American Allied forces wanted the Japanese army to concentrate their superior forces and launched three phases of road battles one after another. The Sino-US allied forces and the Chinese people fought bloody battles to open the China-India highway. In January 1945, the Allied counterattack in Burma was victorious. At the same time, the China-India Highway was opened to traffic. Together with the Hump Route, military supplies accumulated in India were continuously transported to the anti-Japanese battlefield in China. An oil pipeline was also laid along the highway from India to Kunming, China. To commemorate the outstanding contribution of General Stilwell and the great role played by the Allied forces and the Chinese army under his leadership in the Burma Campaign, this road was named the Stilwell Highway?#12290;

In July 1944, Stilwell was promoted to a four-star general. In October of the same year, General Stilwell was recalled to the United States by President Roosevelt and appointed commander of the U.S. 10th Army in the Pacific Theater. In August 1945, he accepted the surrender of more than 100,000 Japanese troops in the Ryukyu Islands. In September 1945, he attended the Japanese surrender signing ceremony held on the battleship Suri. General Stilwell died of stomach cancer on October 12, 1946, at the age of 63. The day before his death, he was awarded an Infantry Combat Medal at his request. This is a very common medal, but it can only be obtained by infantry fighting on the front line.

Stilwell had many admirable talents. He had been to many places in China and was very fluent in Chinese. Sometimes he wrote diaries in Chinese instead of English. More importantly, he has full confidence in the brave, tenacious, hard-working Chinese farmers. He firmly believes that with certain training and good leadership, the Chinese army can rival any army in the world. He concentrated 400 Chinese-American soldiers for communication training, with the aim of enabling them to communicate more effectively with Chinese and American personnel after arriving in China, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening China's military.

Stilwell Road General Stilwell

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