CHONGQING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) — A sequence of occasions had been held Tuesday in China’s Chongqing, to commemorate 140 years for the reason that late U.S. Army General Joseph Stilwell’s delivery.
Stilwell fought aspect by aspect with the Chinese folks in the course of the War of Resistance in opposition to Japanese Aggression (1931-1945).
Stilwell’s residence within the metropolis was transformed right into a museum devoted to his service that opened to the general public in 1994.
Stilwell is the one high-ranking U.S. navy determine who has a museum devoted to his reminiscence in China.
In entrance of Stilwell’s former residence, his great-granddaughters planted an osmanthus tree, which symbolizes friendship, loftiness and peace.
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