Fan Hanjie
Fan Hanjie 范漢傑 | |
|---|---|
Lieutenant General | |
| Unit | 6th army |
| Commands held | Jinzhou forward command center |
| Battles/wars |
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| Awards | Medal of Freedom (1945).[1] |
| Other work | writer |
Fan Hanjie (
Liaoshen Campaign he served as the deputy commander-in-chief of Manchuria and director of the command center in Jinzhou with the rank of lieutenant general in the National Revolutionary Army
.
Early life and career
Fan Hanjie was born in
Manchurian incident
on September 18, 1931.
Chinese Civil War
In March 1945, he was formally promoted to rank of
KMT central committee, he became a confidant of Chiang Kai-shek and one of his favorite generals. In July 1948, he followed the Chiang's orders to reorganized two new armies, the 5th army and the 8th army to bolster Nationalist position in Manchuria. In September Fan was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of Manchuria and director of the Jinzhou forward command. Because Wei Lihuang refused to concentrate the majority of the nationalist forces in Jinzhou, unable to disobey the orders of his superior officer, Fan fought as hard as he could, but he was outmaneuvered by the communist forces led by Lin Biao
, who used massed artillery to achieve a breakthrough into the city defense, and on October 15, 1948, Jinzhou had fallen and Fan was captured by the communist Manchurian Field Army. He was imprisoned in Jinzhou Jail until his pardon by Chinese Communists years later.
Later life
After his release in 1962, he was elected as a member of the CCP national committee on historical records. He had written a "Jinzhou campaign memoir," documented his war effort. In 1964 he was elected as the fourth member of the Standing Committee of the Political Consultative Conference. On January 16, 1976 he died in Beijing, at age 82.
References
- ^ Liu, Sylvia, Lt. General Fan Hanjie, My Grandfather
- 范漢傑將軍生平 Fan Daying, 2007
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