Liberating North China - 1945: A China Marine's Story

By William Hook

The bloody war against the Japanese ended in Tokyo Bay on the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945. A few days later, Colonel Gale T Cummings, the G-1 of the III Amphibious Corps (USMC) summoned his driver and told him that he had been chosen to accompany Brigadier General William A Worton, Chief of Staff, along with 10 other officers and 5 other enlisted men to fly to North China on September 17 to make contact with the Japanese Imperial Forces and begin preparations for the official surrender of North China to the US Marine Corps on behalf of the Allied Forces. 'Liberating China - 1945 is the thrilling account of a little known piece of history as told by a China Marine

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500282952
• ISBN13: 9781500282950
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"