{"id":155,"date":"2014-05-15T08:14:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T13:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2014-06-04T18:05:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T23:05:22","slug":"this-day-in-1944-chinese-troops-capture-pingda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"This Day in 1944 &#8211; Chinese Troops Capture Pingda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 15, 1944, Chinese troops from the XIth Army Group captured Pingda, the first town liberated from the Japanese south of the Burma Road during the Salween Campaign. The Japanese 56th Division was spread thin across the hundred-mile front and offered little resistance. The Chinese, however, had not yet learned to consolidate their positions and a Japanese counterattack reclaimed the town on May 23.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_156\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/15May.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/15May.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Troops Fighting on the Salween Front\" width=\"1000\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/15May.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/15May-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/15May-382x300.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese Troops Fighting on the Salween Front<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 15, 1944, Chinese troops from the XIth Army Group captured Pingda, the first town liberated from the Japanese south of the Burma Road during the Salween Campaign. The Japanese 56th Division was spread thin across the hundred-mile front and offered little resistance. The Chinese, however, had not yet learned to consolidate their positions&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/?p=155\" class=\"themebutton3\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forgottensquadron.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}