Chinese communist Eighth Route Army soldier posing with a captured Japanese machine gun, Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, China, 1944

Caption   Chinese communist Eighth Route Army soldier posing with a captured Japanese machine gun, Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, China, 1944 ww2dbase
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Source    ww2dbaseUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries Harrison Forman Collection
Identification Code   fr206817
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Type 92   Main article  Photos  
Photos in Series See all photos in this series
Photos at Same Place Yan'an, Shaanxi, China
Added By C. Peter Chen
Added Date 29 Jun 2021

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1. Anonymous says:
28 Oct 2020 09:33:11 PM

Actully this is not a soldier, but a general who lost his arm in the battle where the machine gun was seized.
2. Anonymous says:
28 Oct 2020 09:40:36 PM

Sorry , this was not Lt.General Zuo Qi (the one-arm guy in another photo), but Chen Zaidao who later promoted to General rank.

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