Stilwell was the military chief of staff of the American National Government in China during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period. Stilwell road is a highway built in 1944 by China's army after its counter-offensive victory in western Yunnan and northern Myanmar, which runs from Dore in northeastern India to Kunming in Yunnan, China. More than 50,000 tons of urgently needed materials were transported to the anti-Japanese battlefield in China during the bullets, which is called the "lifeline of anti-Japanese". It starts from Redo, a border town in northeastern India, to Myitkyina, Myanmar, and is divided into two lines: the southern line passes through Ba Maw, Namkham, Myanmar, and Wan Ding, China. The northern line passes through Gambari in Myanmar, Houqiao Port in China and Tengchong to Longling. Both lines are eventually connected to the Yunnan-Myanmar Highway. The "Stilwell Road" in the US military lens needs no hype. A motorcade is slowly and difficultly climbing Catherine's Stilwell Alpine Highway, and more than 20 bends at 180 degrees are superimposed to the top of the mountain, which constitutes a wonder of the world highway. This photo was taken very successfully, and it also showed the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression International Corridor in a panoramic view. It was published in Chinese and foreign newspapers a long time ago, making "Twenty-four Turn" a symbol of the famous "Yunnan-Myanmar Highway" or "stilwell road" or "Lido Highway". The so-called "turn" refers to the turning of the road. Obviously, it can be counted as 2 1 revolution in the photo, but somehow the Japanese only count as "20 revolutions"-of course, most of them are not important. The important thing is that there is only one place, and it is in China. This fact is beyond doubt! Until 2004, a serious and persistent researcher on the history of World War II in China published his research results, claiming to look everywhere for the location of the "Turn 24" photo. It is hard to find the twists and turns in the process, but it was found in the suburbs of Qinglong County, Guizhou Province-the original "24 turn" was not in Yunnan, but in Guizhou, thus correcting the fallacy of the "24 turn" of Yunnan-Myanmar Highway in the past 57 years. However, the interpretation of the mystery of "Twenty-four Turn" can't be carried on completely according to the good intention, and some people turn to guess the dispute of "provincial origin" of "Twenty-four Turn" and compete for this golden symbol. Fortunately, some serious scholars have made a detailed textual research based on the construction history of this anti-Japanese highway, pointing out the evolution of English and Chinese, Chinese and American troops, names and time and space, indicating that no matter where this highway and the "Twenty-four Turn" belong now, they are symbols of the hard struggle between China and the United States against the Japanese army, and this history will not change. Chiang Kai-shek named "Stilwell Road" and "July 7th Incident". After the Japanese army launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, the people of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and China urgently need to open a new international channel connecting Kunming and Lashio, Myanmar. From Kunming to Wan Ding, to build the 547.8km highway from Xiaguan to Wan Ding, we have to pass through the last branch of Hengduan Mountains in western Yunnan with extremely complicated topography and geology, climb six mountains such as Gaoligong Mountain, climb five deep-valley rapids such as Nujiang River and Lancang River, and climb eight cliffs. Time is tight, the task is heavy, the climate and environment are bad, and the construction conditions are extremely poor. This is the most arduous and huge project in the history of highway construction in China. 1937, 10 In June, the National Government ordered the recruitment of 200,000 migrant workers in Yunnan to be completed as soon as possible. The General Engineering Office is located in Baoshan, with six engineering offices, namely Guanyang, Yang Yun, Bao Yun, Baolong, Longlu and Lulu. According to reports, from time to time, the county magistrate of Longling County received an urgent order from the Yunnan provincial government to complete the earthwork of the county project within a time limit, otherwise the county magistrate will come to Kunming with handcuffs to accept punishment. When the magistrate came to Lujiang, he did the same thing, took out the urgent orders and handcuffs of the provincial government, and said to the toast and the district chief, I am a roving officer, and you are a hereditary toast. If the road construction in Lujiang can't be completed, I have to drag you to jump the Nujiang River. From 1937, 1 1 to 1938, 12 counties, people of all ethnic groups, with their own rations and luggage, camped thousands of miles, braved the plague, cut off the road, and sacrificed two or three thousand people for their country with one passion, just eight months. Zhan Sen, Roosevelt's special envoy to China, said after the inspection: "The China administration can complete this arduous project in a short time. This kind of courage and perseverance is really admirable ... first, the lack of machinery, and second, the pure human development, thanks to the hard work and hard work of the people along the line. This spirit is beyond the reach of any nation in the world. " With the construction of vehicles and roads and the shortage of drivers and technicians, we recruit technicians from overseas. The Nanyang Overseas Chinese Association, headed by Chen Jiageng, a patriotic overseas Chinese leader, issued the call of the motherland, and immediately rushed back to Nanyang with 3,200 overseas Chinese machinists from Singapore, Malaysia and other countries, and started nearly one-third of the military vehicles on the Yunnan-Myanmar road to fight side by side with about 6,000 domestic machinists. By June 1945, the "China-India Highway" was successfully opened-starting from Lido, India, passing through Myitkyina, Myanmar, and connecting with the Yunnan-Myanmar Highway in two lines. On October 25th, 65438/KLOC-0, the Yunnan-Myanmar Highway should be officially opened to traffic, that is, the "China-India Highway". It is reported that Chiang Kai-shek announced at the celebration ceremony: "We have broken the enemy's siege of China. Please allow me to name this road after General joseph stilwell to commemorate his outstanding contribution, and to commemorate the outstanding contribution made by the allied forces and the China army under his command in the battle of Myanmar and in the process of building this road. " However, Stilwell went to Okinawa as early as three months ago and left home because he was too arrogant, which made Chiang Kai-shek unhappy. When the Burma Road became "Stilwell Road", President Jiang slapped Stilwell and repaired his face. Wei (1896 to 1960), "General of the Anti-Japanese Tiger" and "Rommel of the East" are one of the "Five Tiger Generals" of the National Government Army. He was a guard at Sun Yat-sen's Guangzhou base camp and held an important position in the national army. Because of friendly cooperation with the Eighth Route Army, he was deprived of military power and dismissed to 1944. During the war in Myanmar, the "China-India Highway" was built, and it was successfully opened with the Indian troops stationed in India, winning the great counterattack in western Yunnan. He was praised as "Wei, a victorious general" by Time magazine of the United States, so he was awarded a medal by the National Government and was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the Chinese Army in the Allied China Theater. Sun Liren, commander of the new 38th Division of Indian Army, is known as "Rommel of the East". After conquering Myitkyina, he was promoted to general of the new army. At the beginning of 1945, the Yunnan-Myanmar Highway was jointly opened with the Chinese Expeditionary Force in western Yunnan, successfully ending the second Myanmar campaign. After Japan surrendered, it led the army to recover Guangzhou and became one of the five main forces of the national army, known as the "first army in the world." However, in the war of liberation, the Kuomintang regular army could not defeat the field army of the production party. Wei was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the northeast "suppression general" and was placed under house arrest as a "passive". He left Hongkong on 1949 and returned to Beijing instead of Taiwan Province Province. The "No.1 Army in the World" was sent to seize the Northeast, and was also defeated by the Fourth Field Army in Lin Biao. Sun Liren was later labeled as a "premeditated mutiny" in Taiwan Province Province and was placed under house arrest for a long time until 1988.