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7 unusual facts about Joseph Stilwell


Battle of Alcatraz

Warden James A. Johnston now called upon the expertise of two platoons of Marines under the direction of General "Vinegar" Joe Stilwell to guard the general population of convicts and to take the cell house from the outside.

Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road

Its forces were composed of the Fifth, Sixth and Sixty-sixth Army under the command of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma, commanded by Lt. General Joseph Stilwell, Lt. General Luo Zhuoying was his Executive Officer.

Burma Campaign 1944

Some Chinese forces which had retreated into India in early 1942 had been re-equipped and retrained by an American military mission under Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell, who was also Chief of Staff to Chiang Kai-shek and Deputy Commander of SEAC.

Distinguished Americans series

The Distinguished Americans series is a set of definitive stamps issued by the United States Postal Service which was started in 2000 with a 10ยข stamp depicting Joseph Stilwell.

Order of Battle of the Chindits

:Also known as Merrill's Marauders and after being trained were transferred to General Joseph Stilwell's Northern Combat Area Command and operated independently of the Chindits.

South East Asia Command

The American General Joseph Stilwell was the first deputy supreme Allied commander, as well as heading the US China Burma India Theater (CBI) command.

Stilwell Hall

The building was constructed between November 1940 and September 1943 under the initiative of General Joseph W. Stilwell.


Battle of Yenangyaung

The situation became so critical that General Harold Alexander, commanding the Burma Army, asked Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell, the American commander of the China Burma India Theater and Chief of Staff to Chiang Kai-Shek, to move the Chinese 38th Division immediately into the Yenaungyaung area.

Pangsau Pass

Prospected by the British in the late 19th Century as a possible railway route from India to Myitkyina in north Burma through the Hukawng Valley, the pass became famous during World War II for being the initial obstacle encountered by American General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's forces in their effort to build a land route to isolated China after the fall of Burma to the Japanese.


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