Peng Dehuai

October 24, 1898 – November 29, 1974

Peng Dehuai (1898-1974) was a Chinese general and politician who served as Minister of National Defense from 1954 to 1959. He joined the Chinese Communist Party after serving in warlord and Kuomintang armies, participated in the Long March, and was one of the most senior generals defending the Jiangxi Soviet. During the Second Sino-Japanese War he was a leading commander in the communist forces, and his battlefield successes were rivaled only by Lin Biao's.

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