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Peng Dehuai [a] (October 24, 1898 – November 29, 1974) was a Chinese general and China's Minister of National Defense from 1954 to 1959. Peng was born into a poor peasant family, and received several years of primary education before his family's poverty forced him to suspend his education at the age of ten, and to work for several years as a ...
Peng Dehuai (born Oct. 24, 1898, Xiangtan, Hunan province, China—died Nov. 29, 1974, Beijing) was a military leader, one of the greatest in Chinese communist history, and minister of national defense of China from 1954 until 1959, when he was removed for criticizing the military and economic policies of the party.
彭德怀（1898年10月24日—1974年11月29日），原名清宗，字懷歸，號得華:1 。 后改德怀，小名钟伢子、石穿 ，湖南 湘潭人，湖南陸軍軍官講武堂畢業，中国共产党军事领导人、中国人民解放军军事家、中华人民共和国开国元勋，原正国级 领导人，1955年被授予中华人民共和国元帅军衔。
Peng Dehuai. Born October 24, 1898 Shixiang, Hunan, China Died November 29, 1974. Chinese military leader and minister of defense. Although he was in charge of the Chinese forces in Korea, Peng Dehuai was barely known to Westerners, who for years assumed another general led China in the Korean War (1950–53). Peng had been with Communist Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong (Mao Tsu-tung; 1893–1976 ...
Peng Dehuai (October 24, 1898 – November 29, 1974) was a Chinese general and China's Minister of National Defense from 1954 to 1959. Peng was born into a poor peasant family, and received several years of primary education before his family's poverty forced him to suspend his education at the age of ten, and to work for several years as a ...
