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    (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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    with American military personnel who visited Yan'an as part of the Dixie Mission, briefing the Americans about the military situation in Japanese-occupied...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    services for the front and the region. He was present at Yan'an, when the Dixie Mission, an American civilian and military group, arrived in July 1944. Ma was...
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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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    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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