Expeditionary Force is an elite anti-japanese force sent by the National Army, its equipment and training methods are very different from the domestic army, and, due to the particularity of the tasks it undertakes, the Expeditionary Force is an army that has received international attention, during the entire Anti-Japanese War, the Expeditionary Force of the National Army in Southeast Asia and the Japanese Kou combat is of great significance, and the next set of photos prepared by the author for you (from the late coloring processing of the big guy of the Exploration Bureau), is 1942. Let's take a look at the scene when the burmese governor at the time visited the Sixth Army of the Nationalist Expedition.
This is the picture of Smith arriving at the Burmese Expeditionary Force garrison, and from the picture, we can see that the local officials and gentry of Burma also arrived at the scene to welcome.
At that time, the scene was Gan Lichu, commander of the Sixth Army of the Expeditionary Force, who was a famous general in the nationalist army and a first-term student of Huangpu, in addition to having a relatively high academic qualification, his military achievements were also relatively high, and General Gan Lichu served as a platoon, company, and battalion commander of the teaching regiment after graduation, and participated in the First and Second Crusades.
In 1938 and 1939, General Gan led the Sixth Army to participate in the Battle of Wuhan and the Battle of Kunlun Pass, and in 1942, he led the Sixth Army into Burma, so when Smith came to visit here, General Gan did not stay here for long.
This is a photo of Smith inspecting the soldiers of the Sixth Army at that time, and from the picture, the most intuitive feeling is that the height of the Burmese governor is too outstanding, whether it is the soldiers of the Sixth Army or General Gan, they all look relatively short around him.
Smith was also interested in the equipment and personnel quality of the soldiers of the Sixth Army, and we can see what General Gan was explaining to him. As one of the expeditionary forces, the Sixth Army at that time, whether it was the combat ability of the soldiers or the equipment, belonged to a relatively strong unit in the national army.
In the picture, we also see Chen Mianwu, commander of the Provisional Fifth Division of the Sixth Army, who graduated from the Sixth Baoding Army Officer School and the Eleventh Army University. Major cavalry instructor at the Chaozhou Branch of the Whampoa Military Academy. He was transferred in February of that year, retired in 1946, and has been living in seclusion in Macau ever since, and as for the situation in his later years, we have no information on our side.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, General Gan Lichu had been commanding the army in Guangzhou, and later fought with our army, and after May 1949, under the premise of seeing that the general trend had gone, Gan Lichu was still non-distinguished, black and white were unclear, insisting on standing on a front with the losers, and he personally led the remnants of more than 1,000 people to continue to resist and active in the Pingle and Dayao Mountains area. In 1950, he was surrounded and suppressed by our army, and was killed by our army in the middle of the battle, ending the second half of his life of mistakes and chaos! It should be said that as a general of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Gan Lichu was not able to see the great righteousness and future of the nation at the last moment, which is indeed a pity, if he could choose to retire in 1946 like Chen Mianwu, he may have a relatively good old age, but he was too obsessed, after his death, his former President Huangpu awarded him the so-called rank of general of the army.