Peng Xuefeng
Chinese general (1907–1944)
Peng Xuefeng (Chinese: 彭雪枫) (September 9, 1907 – September 11, 1944) was a New Fourth Army general officer during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Early life
Peng was born in Henan in 1907. He was not related to Marshal Peng Dehuai. He was trained at a military school in Beijing and joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1927. He spent some time as a political commissar.
Personal life
Peng died in 1944. He was killed in action in Xiayi County, Henan 5 months before the birth of his son. Peng was 37 years old.
Peng's son is Peng Xiaofeng, a retired general in the People's Liberation Army.
Chinese Civil War
War of Resistance against Japan
Following the establishment of the Second United Front, Peng, as Director of the Eighth Route Army's Taiyuan Office and a representative of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters to the joint meeting of chiefs of staff and directors of political departments at the division level and above, convened in Wuhan by the Kuomintang Military Affairs Commission during the Spring of 1938, he was given the rank of Major General.
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