Changteh
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: chängʹdǔʹ
Proper noun
Changteh
- Alternative form of Changde
- 1960, “Stepping-stones to Japan”, in The Picture History of World War II 1939-1945, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, OCLC 2100281, page 214:
- Changteh, in northern Hunan Province, was captured from the Japanese on Dec. 9, in the winter campaign of 1943, after some of the bloodiest fighting of the entire Sino-Japanese war.
- 2018, Kleiner, Sam, “Epilogue”, in The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots who Waged a Secret War against Japan, →ISBN, OCLC 1055869859, page 232:
- He had returned to China in 1943, this time as an army intelligence officer, in which capacity Chennault had quickly dispatched him to help call in air strikes on enemy positions. However, Japanese forces were closing in on the area in which he was based, in a town called Changteh, and Frillmann was forced to flee on foot.
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Translations
Changde — see Changde
Further reading
- “Changteh” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
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