How Three Tanks Saved Taiwan From Communist Invasion

Battle of Guningtou

Grant Piper
War Stories
Published in
4 min readFeb 11, 2022

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M3A3 tank manned in the Chinese Civil War (Public domain)

On October 1st, 1949, Mao Zedong announced the formation of the People’s Republic of China. It was a massive blow to the Republic of China, the nationalists that were still fighting the civil war. The announcement signaled that the communists had secured the majority of the mainland. The nationalists were being forced out of the country.

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Grant Piper
War Stories

Professional writer. Amateur historian. Husband, father, Christian.