(Chinese: 美軍觀察組; pinyin: Měijūn Guānchá Zǔ), commonly known as the Dixie Mission (Chinese: 迪克西使團; pinyin: Díkèxī Shǐtuán), was the first US effort to...
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Zhou Enlai (section The Dixie mission)
military observation group, known as the "Dixie mission", to travel to Yan'an. Mao and Zhou welcomed this mission and held numerous talks in the interests...
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David D. Barrett (category Dixie Mission participants)
Observation Group, also known as the Dixie Mission, to Yan'an, China. However, his involvement in the Dixie Mission cost him promotion to general, when...
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Dixie Virginia Carter (May 25, 1939 – April 10, 2010) was an American actress. She starred as Julia Sugarbaker on the sitcom Designing Women (1986–1993)...
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that the Chinese communists were "agrarian reformers." In the 1944 Dixie Mission, US Colonel John Service visited the Communists and praised them. He...
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Koji Ariyoshi (category Dixie Mission participants)
China, where he was exposed to the communists. While stationed at the Dixie Mission in Yan'an, Ariyoshi met and worked with both Chinese and Japanese Communists...
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Dixie is a nickname for the populated, lower-elevation area of south-central Washington County, the southwest corner of the State of Utah. The area lies...
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John S. Service (category Dixie Mission participants)
State Department's "China Hands," he was an important member of the Dixie Mission to Yan'an. Service correctly predicted that the Communists would defeat...
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John Paton Davies Jr. (category Dixie Mission participants)
Observation Group to Yan'an, China, in 1944. The group, commonly known as the Dixie Mission, established the first official diplomatic and military contact between...
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St. George, Utah (redirect from Silk Mission)
Wasatch Front. The city was settled in 1861 as a cotton mission, earning it the nickname "Dixie". While the crop never became a successful commodity, the...
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Dixie Tighe (May 23, 1905 - December 31, 1946) was an American war correspondent. Tighe's father had been a reporter, and she followed in his footsteps...
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Charles C. Stelle (category Dixie Mission participants)
Strategic Services (OSS). Stelle was a member of the Dixie Mission (1944–1947), an American observation mission to Yan'an, China, to investigate the Chinese Communists...
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Nationalist air force (1937–1945) China Air Task Force China Marines Dixie Mission Flying Tigers Operation Beleaguer Sino-American Cooperative Organization...
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trained there include David D. Barrett, who headed the Army's wartime Dixie Mission. During World War II some Foreign Service Officers of the United States...
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World War II, including Mao Zedong's Red Army in China (known as the Dixie Mission) and the Viet Minh in French Indochina. OSS officer Archimedes Patti...
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Hart of Dixie is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on The CW from September 26, 2011, to March 27, 2015. The series, created by Leila...
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greeted by Zhou Enlai and Colonel David D. Barrett of the American Dixie Mission to the Communists. When Mao arrived with General Zhu De in a Chevrolet...
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host to the United States Army Observation Group, also known as the Dixie Mission. This group sought to establish relations with Chinese Communist forces...
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Atkinson China lobby Chinese Civil War Cold War Dixie Mission History of China Henry Luce Marshall Mission McCarthyism The Men Who Lost China, a 2013 documentary...
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Utah Tech University (redirect from Dixie State College)
Utah Tech University (UT), formerly Dixie State University (DSU), is a polytechnic 4-year public university in St. George, Utah. The university offers...
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Wilbur J. Peterkin (category Dixie Mission participants)
commonly known as the Dixie Mission. Prior to the war, Peterkin was a high school teacher in Sumner, Washington. Before commanding Dixie, Peterkin had spent...
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and Investigations on the U.S. House Appropriations Committee. The Dixie Mission (July 22, 1944 – March 11, 1947), was the first U.S. effort to establish...
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30. Dixie Mission – Another mission by the OSS to establish relations with the Chinese Communist Party Dickey was one of the planners of the Dixie Mission...
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Ray Cromley (category Dixie Mission participants)
Dixie Mission. After the war, he went on to become a writer for The Wall Street Journal. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Dixie Mission Carolle...
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Communists appeared to have lost their most likely ally. The American Dixie Mission had investigated the possibility of American support for the Communists...
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dinner in the White House. Nixon goes to China Ping-pong diplomacy Dixie mission Visit by Deng Xiaoping to the United States General: China and the United...
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People's Government 1934–1936 Long March 1936 Xi'an Incident 1937–1946 Second United Front (Wartime perception of the Chinese Communists) 1944 Dixie Mission...
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Raymond P. Ludden (category Dixie Mission participants)
to be part of it. The observer section was known informally as the Dixie Mission, and it had both military and political objectives. The military objectives...
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Dixie L. Leavitt (born August 27, 1929) is an American entrepreneur and state legislator who served as a Republican member of the Utah State House of...
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Herschend Family Entertainment (redirect from Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede)
in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and Dolly Parton's Stampede (formerly Dixie Stampede). In April 2021, Hershend announced its purchase of the Vancouver...
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