PLA/Chinese army heros

PLA body armour brought up the topic of chinese hero, and some may think it's foolish to do what they did. So i just thought i should post some photos of them


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May 26th, 1948, squad leader Dong Cunrui of the Northeast liberation army(part of the former PLA) died with the enemy machine gun post. During the battle of LongHua, the bombing squad he was leading had destroyed 4 gun posts and 5 machine gun posts, while the troop was charging for the final assault to middle school of Longhua, one machine gun post which was built in the middle of the bridge started to fire at the soldiers. Dong charged under the bridge and found no spot to deploy charges. As the time for final assault is near, he held the charges with his own hands and demolish the bridge.

the red banner taken the enemy post.


movie "Dong Cunrui"（1955） recaptures such heroic moment.


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April, 1951 volunteered in Chinese people's volunteer army, as communicator of 45th div 135 reg 2nd battalion in 15th army.
Oct.19th, 1952, during the battle of Mount Delta, he volunteered to demolish an enemy central machine gun station. 30--40 meters from the station, one partner was killed and another was heavy wounded, with his arm was wounded as well. He crawled to the station under heavy machine gun fire.Afer he toasted several grenades, such station kept firing. While he has no more charges and ammo with him, he jumped up and put up his chest on the enemy machine gun, stopped firing while support troops destroyed the station. he dead at the age of 21.
He was later on named the first class hero of the korean war.
After the battle of mount delta, the world knows there is an mount delta in korea, and there is a 15th army on the mountain of delta. 15th army later on, was reformed into the first and the only airborne army of PLA, and Huang's unit was named "Huang Jiguang" Heroic company.

QIU SHAOYUN


Qiu Shaoyun, born in 1931. December of 1949, joined PLA, March 1951 joined CPVA. As soldier in 15th army, 29 div, 87 reg, 9th company

Oct.11th of 1952, during battle, Qiu's company was hiding on a mountain to wait for the order to assault the enemy. while several plane bombed their waiting area, and light the hay around Qiu. Qiu was quickly burnt on, but he stayed put, and did not move an inch to avoid his unit to be found by the enemy. He was burnt to death while he didn't move one inch and didn't not make one sound. He was later on titled first class hero of korean war.

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He died . He held the charges up so it won't fall.

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I heard of him. The aftermath is that his torso was full of bullet holes.

Major Arthur Chin

Major Arthur Chin (Chinese: 陳瑞鈿; Cantonese: Chin Shui-Tin; pinyin: Chén Ruìtián) (October 23, 1913 - September 3, 1997) was a pilot and a World War 2 fighter ace.

Chin was born in Portland, Oregon to a Cantonese father and a Peruvian mother. Sparked by the Japanese invasion of China, Chin enrolled in flight school in 1932. Along with 15 other Chinese Americans, he left for China and joined the Guangdong (Cantonese) Provincial Air Force . He would go to destroy eight enemy aircrafts from 1937-1939. In 1939 his plane was hit by enemy fire and crashed. He parachuted to safety but was badly burned. Nevertheless, after several years of surgery he returned to China in 1944 to fly supplies over the Himalayas. He is recognized as the America's first ace in World War II.

Thus, about one month after Arthur Chin died, on October 4, 1997, he was immortalized at the Hall of Fame of the American Airpower Heritage Museum in Midland, Texas. as the first American Ace and an officially recognized Chinese American World War II hero.

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it's cool how americans likes to remember the heros in the air force, the aces, while chinese people likes to remember the little guys that sacrificed themselves. both are great, got to have guts and talent to be an ace in the air force, and got to have a lot of guts to do what the chinese foot soldiers did in ww2, civil war, and korean war.
i guess it's just a difference in culture, the americans like the more exciting air fighting more, that's why the pilots gets all the girls .
i'm glad there are so many great chinese heros!!! they make us chinese more proud to be chinese.

i remember watching those old chinese propaganda movies from the 50s and 60s, wow.. they were the best, better than any movie hollywood can make that's for sure. anyone remember di lai zhan(mine warfare)?? where the kid took a dump on the mine for the japanese engineer to find.

it's called "di lei zhan", di le means land thunder which is "the mine", and zhan means warfare. you see those movies were made with passion, people who made those films, mostly lived through those hard years during war, and they have great respect for the heros, that's how they could show the people with passion. as actors yell out things, they really mean it from their hearts, which is the highest level of acting.
and by the way, except US chinese pilots in chinese air force, lots of the rest pilots are from my home province, and many of the aces were too.

PiSigma said:

i remember watching those old chinese propaganda movies from the 50s and 60s, wow.. they were the best, better than any movie hollywood can make that's for sure.

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anyone watched 平原游击队 (ping yuan you ji dui)? it was a great action film. i mean that guy (李向阳--li xiang yang) was a god at shooting. 1 shot 1 kill, from his pistols (not sniper rifle). now that was amazing. and all the plots are so fast, you don't get the slowness from those hollywood films (romantic parts).

as for the heros, if you want to learn more about them, just read the language (chinese) text book from the elementary schools in china. they have the stories of the main ones.

and also, this thread has more to do with history than general military, so im going to move it.

Yeah, the war movies in the 50s-60s' are better than today...
You can find many errors(some are serious ones) in today's war movies.
It's ironic that people neglect history sometime...

oh about the movies, i saw them in chinatown in vancouver on main, they had all those movie and they all have the symbol "red movie" i think. They had black and white and colour. i wa about to buy it but i didn't. I talk to my mom about it and she told me that those movie was excellent (she watch it when she was young in china), better than any movie show today.

man i think they should air them in the chinese channel so we can learn more (eventhough they are movie, but at least we know what had happened)

Incidentally why dosn't the chinese channel have english subtitles for some of their chinese drama's or series ?