Mao’s China · BATTLE SITE ·
Battle of Guningtou (1949)
On the Mao’s China map as “Guningtou, Kinmen”
25–27 Oct 1949 — Some 9,000 PLA troops cross to Kinmen in requisitioned fishing junks without naval or air cover and are destroyed on the beaches; almost none return. The defeat, and the American Seventh Fleet’s patrol of the strait from June 1950, leave Taiwan and its offshore islands in Nationalist hands to this day.
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- Mao’s consolidation and land reform (chapter 1 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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