As teen-agers in the 1940's, they became Nationalist soldiers in China and followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan.

Y-Force consisted of over 100,000 Nationalist soldiers, and participated in major ground operations in support of American General Joseph W. Stilwell's offensive in northern Burma.

The Communists had incorrectly estimated that there were only 12,000 Nationalist soldiers on the entire island-a calculation that would contribute to their calamitous defeat.

Many Nationalist soldiers were reduced to begging for food because they went unpaid, yet American diplomats discovered that military supplies sent from the United States to China sometimes appeared on the black market soon after arrival.

Some two million Nationalist soldiers and officials settled on Taiwan, where they were bitterly resented by many local people.

These tactics were successful as, from December 1, 1948, through March, 1949, over 12,000 Nationalist soldiers surrendered.

Fully half a million Nationalist soldiers were annihilated in just three short months.

The only sources I'm aware of were unreliable dockworkers and Nationalist Chinese soldiers who were in charge of loading the ship.

(In 1996, Simmen's son released the pictures, showing Nationalist Chinese soldiers committing summary executions by decapitation and shooting, as well as public torture.)

Lin eliminated 470,000 Nationalist soldiers and secured the region for the Communists.