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This year marks the 97th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and a total of 12 people from three generations of our family joined this great people's army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and fought for it all their lives.
Celebrate the 97th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army
Father Wang Zhen (1919.2.15~2001.5.15), a native of Yizheng, Jiangsu. He participated in the revolution in August 1940 and joined the Communist Party of China in August 1941. He successively served in the First Division of the New Fourth Army, the East China Field Army (Third Field Army), the East China Military and Political University of the People's Liberation Army of the Chinese People's University, the General Senior Infantry School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the Military Academy, and the Yichun Military Subdistrict of the Jiangxi Provincial Military Region. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as instructor, brigade instructor, and political commissar of the General Senior Infantry School, political instructor of the Military Academy, member of the Provisional Party Committee of the Sixth Department, secretary of the Party branch of the Hongshan Team, deputy political commissar of the Yichun Military Subdistrict of the Jiangxi Provincial Military Region, and member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee.
In 1955, he was awarded the Medal of Independence and Freedom of the Third Class and the Order of Liberation of the Third Class, and in 1964, he was awarded the Medal of Independent Freedom of the Third Class and the Order of Liberation of the Third Class, and in 1964, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for Independent Merit in the Political Teaching and Research Department of the Military Academy and the Medal of Honor for Independent Merit. He retired in October 1978.
My father died at 14:45 pm on May 15, 2001 in Yichun City, Jiangxi Province, at the age of 83.
Mother Chen Su (1927.9.26~2013.2.22), a native of Xiao County, Anhui Province. He joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army in March 1949 and joined the Communist Party of China in 1950. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served in the East China Field Army, the East China Military and Political University, and the General High Infantry School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. At 8:25 a.m. on February 22, 2013, he died in Nanjing at the age of 86.
Dad Wang Zhen in April 1949 at the Third Field Army's East China Military and Political University. (This is the earliest surviving photo of my father, for some reason, not a single photo of my father when he was a child, after participating in the revolution and the founding of the country, has not been preserved).
In the fall of 1950, her mother, Chen Su, worked as a clerk in the women's squadron of the Suzhou branch of East China Military and Political University.
After my mother participated in Huaye, the Political Department of East China Military and Political University issued the "Letter of Certificate of Treatment for Military Dependents" to my grandfather, Mr. Chen Zongqiao.
Photograph of my father at the General Senior Infantry School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in May 1952 in Nanjing.
Photograph of my mother at the General Senior Infantry School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Nanjing, June 1952.
Photo of my father at the Military Academy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Nanjing.
A photo of her mother Chen Su at the General Senior Infantry School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Dad was photographed in Nanjing in November 1967.
Mom and Dad were photographed in Nanjing in the 60s, with Wang Tao and Wang Qun in the distance.
Dad was filmed in Nanjing in 1969 after the military academy was abolished.
In 1969, the Military Academy was abolished, and the last group photo of my parents in Nanjing before they left Nanjing.
In October 1951, the East China Military Region Command and the Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army awarded Comrade Wang Zhen a certificate of merit of the third class.
Dad Wang Zhen won the People's Republic of China Third Class Independence and Freedom Medal.
Dad Wang Zhen won the People's Republic of China Third Class Liberation Medal.
Certificate of the Order of the People's Republic of China.
Certificate of merit from the Political Department of the East China Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Award certificate of the General Senior Infantry School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Medal of the Political Department of the General Senior Infantry School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
The "Chinese People's Liberation Army Cadres at or above the Division Level Medical Care Certificate" issued by the Ministry of Health of the General Logistics Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Certificate of death of revolutionary servicemen issued by the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army on June 8, 2001.
Eldest sister Wang Yun.
The eldest brother-in-law, Wu Longbao, was conscripted into the army from Wuhu City, Anhui Province in August 1961 and served in the artillery regiment of the 181st Division of the 60th Army of the Nanjing Military Region.
Brother-in-law Wu Longbao served as the commander of the artillery regiment in the 181st Division of the 60th Army of the Nanjing Military Region in 1981.
Wu Longbao served as a brigade commander in the antiaircraft artillery brigade of the First Group Army of the Nanjing Military Region.
Second sister Wang Ming.
The second brother-in-law, Liu Junfang, was conscripted from Yichun District, Jiangxi Province in February 1968 and served in Unit 8737 of the Railway Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
The second brother-in-law, Liu Junfang, was photographed in Laiyuan County, Baoding District, Hebei Province in 1968.
The second brother-in-law, Liu Junfang, was photographed in Yi County, Baoding District, Hebei Province in 1970.
Wang Tao was conscripted into the army from Nanjing No. 9 Middle School in February 1969 and served in the survey and design team of the East China Sea Fleet of the Navy.
Wang Tao's photograph from 1970.
Wang Tao was photographed in Ningbo in April 1971.
Wang Tao was photographed in Ningbo in April 1971.
Wang Tao trains by the river in the army barracks, photographed in July 1972.
Wang Tao in 1972 at the East China Sea Fleet of the Navy.
Wang Tao's photograph in 1972.
The only color photograph Wang Tao has kept, at that time the navy's uniforms were gray. Photographed on the Bund in Shanghai in February 1973.
In May 1970, he was photographed in Ningbo with his parents and little sister. After the Nanjing Military Academy was abolished, the parents got off the bus in Hangzhou and went to Ningbo to visit their son and take a group photo on the way to Yichun, Jiangxi Province.
Photographed with his mother in Ningbo in May 1970.
There are also several military wives in our family who silently dedicate their youth and ideals, and while doing their own work, they are filial to the elderly and raise their children. Among them, Liu Weizhen was awarded the honorary title of outstanding daughter-in-law of the province by the Jiangxi Provincial Military Region.
The eldest sister Wang Qun enlisted in the army from Yiliang County, Kunming City, Yunnan Province in March 1970 and served in the 40th Division Hospital of the 14th Army of the Kunming Military Region.
The eldest sister Wang Qun was filmed in Yiliang County in May 1974, and on May 1 of that year, the female soldiers of the whole army changed their skirts, and the beans of the female soldiers were changed to beanies.
Wang Qun was photographed in Yiliang County in 1975.
The eldest brother-in-law, Zhou Jianxin, was conscripted from Nanjing No. 9 Middle School in December 1969 and served in the 222nd Regiment of the Infrastructure Engineering Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Zhou Jianxin photographed in December 1974 at the construction site of Yunxi 2348 in Yueyang, Hunan.
Zhou Jianxin photographed in December 1974 at the construction site of the Yunxi 2348 Project in Yueyang, Hunan Province, that is, the Yueyang Petrochemical General Plant.
The younger sister Wang Qing was conscripted into the army from Yichun, Jiangxi Province in January 1971 and served in the communication station of the Fujian Provincial Military Region.
A photo of Wang Qing when he was a soldier.
The younger sister Wang Qing was trained with the army in Lianjiang County, Fujian Province in 1973.
Wang Qing was shooting targets in the army in 1975.
The younger brother-in-law Liang Bo was conscripted into the army from Shanggao Bearing Factory in Yichun District, Jiangxi Province in December 1972, and served in the 7th Regiment of the 29th Army Garrison Division of the Fuzhou Military Region, stationed on Nanri Island, Putian, Fujian Province.
In 1979, Liang Bo led the top class of the 7th regiment to participate in the competition of the top class of the whole division and won the first place in the total score of the group.
Little brother-in-law Liang Bo in the military training of the army.
Her niece Wu Ning was conscripted into the army from Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province in September 1988 and served in the Zhenjiang People's Liberation Army Boat Academy.
Wu Ning was admitted to the Third Military Medical University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Chongqing in September 1990.
Wu Ning graduated from the Third Military Medical University in July 1993 and was assigned to serve in the 359 Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Zhenjiang City.
Feng Bin, his nephew and son-in-law, was conscripted into the army from Dongtai County, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province in November 1987 and served in the Beijing Garrison Guard Company.
Feng Bin, nephew and son-in-law, was admitted to Zhenjiang People's Liberation Army Boat Academy in July 1990.
After graduation, his nephew and son-in-law Feng Bin stayed in Zhenjiang People's Liberation Army Boat Academy as a teacher.
Wedding photos of niece Wu Ning and niece and son-in-law Feng Bin.
His nephew, Wu Jun, was conscripted into the army from Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province in September 1992 and served in the 2nd Division of the 1st Group Army of the Nanjing Military Region.
Wu Jun was admitted to the Bengbu Vehicle Management Institute of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in September 1993.
In 2000, Wu Jun served as the commander of the automobile company of the anti-aircraft artillery brigade of the First Group Army of the Nanjing Military Region.
Our family's 12 servicemen are distributed in the army and navy, and in five arms, including artillery, engineering, railway, infrastructure engineering, and communications.
I have a history of being a soldier in my life, and I will never regret it for the rest of my life.
We are now all middle-aged and old, and have retired from active service, in the face of the ever-changing international situation, our attitude is still ---if there is a war, we will be recalled." If you want to fight, I will accompany you!
Author: Wang Tao