There was a recent obituary circulating in the Hunan Association of Tourism in the United States.
obituary shows that a 98-year-old man passed away in New York on October 21, 2019.
This old man has a special identity - the last female military doctor in the Chinese army stationed in India. Her name is Fang Shouchun.
Photos of Fang Shouchun when he was in the Chinese army stationed in India
She was a nurse with the army, and experienced the Battle of Wuhan and Changsha, and participated in the construction of the Yunnan-Burma Highway; later, she became a medical staff of the 38th Division of the Chinese New First Army stationed in India, and killed three Japanese invaders on the battlefield and annihilated a traversing Japanese soldiers with her comrades; General Stilwell, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, awarded her the rank of lieutenant.
01 The Japanese suicide squad member was killed by ambushing and killing him at night
1937 In November 1937, 17-year-old Fang Shouchun joined the 157th rear hospital of the Anti-Japanese Forces and received practical training and internships on battlefield rescue.
In 1942, the new 38th Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force broke through from Myanmar and retreated to India, and was reorganized into the Chinese army stationed in India. When the Indian Army recruited new recruits in Kunming, Fang Shouchun said to the recruiting officer: "I want to join the Indian Army."
"We are going to fight, only men are not women." The officer said. Fang Shouchun retorted: "Half of the 400 million compatriots in China are women. Men can go to the battlefield, and women can go to the battlefield! Since ancient times, there have been women who are not as good as men!" The officer was moved, but said he wanted to ask for instructions.
Soon after, Fang Shouchun was told: "The chief agreed to join the army stationed in India with four other female soldiers!"
When boarding the transport plane to India, Fang Shouchun realized that it was specially approved that she and her female companions Zhang Kejing, Qiu Runlan, Liu Bin and Zhu Anna could join the army stationed in India.
Fang Shouchun (first from left) and his sisters who are also working as medical staff in the New 38th Division
are field hospitals adjacent to Myanmar in northeast India. Due to the tense war, the British soldiers guarding the hospital were urgently transferred to the front line to fight, and the guards could only be held by medical personnel. There are medical staff from many countries in the hospital, many of which are Indian female soldiers.
For a while, the female sentry was raped and killed by Japanese soldiers late at night, causing panic. Several Indian female nurses were so scared that they left the hospital.
However, Fang Shouchun has been in the army for many years. After baptism on the battlefield, she suggested to the dean: stand on the open post, go to a secret whistle, and subdue the Japanese devils. The dean agreed.
The secret whistle is set in the dark grass and must be invaded by mosquitoes and poisonous snakes. One night, Fang Shouchun fell to the early morning and saw a black shadow flashing dozens of meters ahead, and rustling rustling was getting closer and closer. Fang Shouchun identified three people. She picked up the machine gun and fired it. At the same time, the sentries on Minggang also fired with guns. Soon, the scene was silent. After inspection, several suicide squadrons of the Japanese Ace 56th Division were killed. They also contained names, military ranks, highly toxic potassium cyanide, silent pistols, daggers, etc. in their pockets.
Fang Shouchun was praised by General Stilwell , the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Army in India. At the officers' meeting, Stilwell personally awarded her military rank.
General Stilwell personally awarded the title of Fang Shouchun
Fang Shouchun has always kept this "Instruction of the Commander-in-Chief in India" with the title of military rank. As can be seen from the photos, the awarding time was August 21, 1943, and the content was: Fang Dialect (Fang Shouchun) was awarded as a second-class military assistant (note: equivalent to a lieutenant), and the signature was "Commander-in-Chief Stilwell".
02 Anti-Japanese War After the victory, he went to Changsha to live for nearly half a century
According to reports, Fang Shouchun has a sad and beautiful transnational love story, and his immigration to the United States in his later years is also related to this.
Fang Shouchun has been a beautiful girl since she was a child. During his time in the army, there were suitors everywhere, and some feelings were gone because of the chaos. It was not until the first half of 1945 that the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan was about to happen that Fang Shouchun met the American doctor Conway in a hospital in Chengdu.
Conway was born in a family of doctors and graduated from medical university. He is tall and handsome. At that time, he was Fang Shouchun's supervisory doctor and was usually serious. When he checked the ward, several nurses greeted him, but he seemed to have not heard it. So the nurses discussed: "We ignore him." Later, when Conway checked the rounds and asked about the wounded, several nurses kept silent. Fang Shouchun also said, "You can see it yourself."
After several contacts, one day, Kang Wei suddenly said to Fang Shouchun, "It's half a day off this afternoon, I'll invite you to have dinner together. Seeing Fang Shouchun didn't say anything, he said, "We all brought a few friends." Fang Shouchun felt that there were too many people anyway, so he agreed. Fang Shouchun had learned English in the army and knew some simple conversations. During the meal, Kang Wei asked Fang Shouchun to teach him Chinese, and he taught Fang Shouchun to learn English and learn languages from each other. After that, the two began to contact each other. Kang Wei was very good at Fang Shouchun.
until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Kang Wei asked him to Fang Shouchun proposed, and Fang Shouchun agreed. In January 1946, they held a simple wedding in Shanghai.
1946, Fang Shouchun and Kang Wei got married.
Fang Shouchun after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
After that, Kang Wei wanted to take Fang Shouchun to the United States. Fang Shouchun had a fierce ideological struggle. That year, her father had just passed away, leaving her with a minor younger brother, and her grandmother was a woman with a small foot, and she could not work. Fang Shouchun said: "I can't leave. "She wants to stay and raise her younger brother and take care of the old man.
That's it. Fang Shouchun went to Changsha to live with her grandmother, and gave birth to her daughter Fang Lili in October of the same year. Kang Wei heard the news and sent some money from the United States.
After that, the Kuomintang retreated from Taiwan, and the Korean War broke out. Kang Wei, who was far away in the United States, could not contact Fang Shouchun, so she married another wife and gave birth to a daughter named Kang Shilin. Fang Shouchun worked in the Changsha bed sheet factory infirmary and never remarried.
Until China's reform and opening up, American companies came to China to invest. Kang Wei asked Kang Shilin to go to China to find Fang Shouchun and her half-sister Fang Lili . In 1979, Kang Shilin, who served as director of the Three Gorges Luxury Cruise, a Sino-US joint venture tourism company, finally found out the address of Fang Shou and her daughter in Changsha and met Fang Lili. In 1982, Kang Shilin took Fang Lili to study in the United States.
10 years later, Fang Lili had her own company in the United States. She took her mother to settle in New York, USA.
on October 28, the reporter contacted Fang Shouchun's old daughter's friend. The old daughter Fang Lili stated that when she returned to China in the year, she would give all her mother's medals to the History Museum.
(Source: Xiaoxiang Morning News WeChat official account)
