The Eighth Route Army, also known as the 18th Group Army, was a field army nominally under the banner of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, established in 1937 as part of the Se
Eighth Route Army fighting on the Futuyu Great Wall, Laiyuan, Hebei, 1938. Photograph by Sha Fei.
In July 1937, the Presidium of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Communist Party issued an order for the Chinese Red Army to reorganize into the National Revolutionary Army and stand by for the anti-Japanese front line.
Former site of the Eighth Route Army Office in Guilin.
Chinese poster depicting the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi.
The National Revolutionary Army was the military arm of the Kuomintang from 1924 until 1947.
Eighth Route Army
…Chinese: 八路军; traditional Chinese: 八路軍; pinyin: Bālù-Jūn), also known as the 18th Group Army, was a field army nominally under the banner of the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Republic of China, established in 1937 as part of the Second United Front against Japan. In practice, the Eighth Route Army was under the…
The opening ceremony of the Whampoa Military Academy, June 16, 1924. On the podium, from left to right: Liao Zhongkai, Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching-ling. Below the podium, the first one from the left in white suite is Two-Gun Cohen.
National Revolutionary Army troops prepare to siege Shanghai against Sun Chuanfang's forces.
National Revolutionary Army soldiers march into the British concessions in Hankou during the Northern Expedition.
A Chinese propaganda poster depicting the National Revolutionary Army.