Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Changde.
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.
1960, “Stepping-stones to Japan”, in The Picture History of World War II 1939-1945, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 2141 more example
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.
2018, Sam Kleiner, “Epilogue”, in The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots who Waged a Secret War against Japan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 232
Origin
- Mandarin常德
- EnglishChangteh
From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 常德 (Chángdé).
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