Does anyone know who is the American officer pictured with the Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin?
To the left is Zhang's son,Zhang Xueliang: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Xueliang
Likely candidates for the American are:
Brigadier-General William D Connor,Commanding General of US Army forces in China, 1923 to 1926
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Durward_Connor
Brigadier-General Joseph C Castner,Commanding General of US Army forces in China, 1926 to 1929
Who's this with Zhang Zuolin?
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Re: Who's this with Zhang Zuolin?
Peter,
I think you are correct about Connor:
I made a search in the Google News archives on: "chang tso-lin" "william * connor" and I got a reference to this article in the Chicago Tribune February 27, 1927: "Uncle Sam's Infantry in China" I can only get a snipet view of it (Pay-Per-View, but it says:

I think you are correct about Connor:
I made a search in the Google News archives on: "chang tso-lin" "william * connor" and I got a reference to this article in the Chicago Tribune February 27, 1927: "Uncle Sam's Infantry in China" I can only get a snipet view of it (Pay-Per-View, but it says:
Now Connor is mention in that article. Any bets on whether this is the picture caption for exactly this photo?tOUR FRIEND CHANG TSO LIN AGAIN, trick hat and all, receiving a salute from the ... Chang Tso Lin of Manchuria i' at the center. On his right is his son

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Re: Who's this with Zhang Zuolin?
Thanks Steen,thats great.
George C Marshall commanded the US 15th Regiment under Connor at Tientsin 1924-1927 so we sometimes forget how the Chinese experience moulded the US Army in WW2.Others like Ridgeway and Maxwell Taylor also served under Marshall.
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Peter

George C Marshall commanded the US 15th Regiment under Connor at Tientsin 1924-1927 so we sometimes forget how the Chinese experience moulded the US Army in WW2.Others like Ridgeway and Maxwell Taylor also served under Marshall.
Regards
Peter
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Re: Who's this with Zhang Zuolin?
He does not look like wiki photo of him :
no glasses, no chubby face
no glasses, no chubby face
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Re: Who's this with Zhang Zuolin?
That young could be the interpreter or adjutant of Zhang Zuolin, not his son.Peter H wrote: ↑24 Jun 2009 13:31Does anyone know who is the American officer pictured with the Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin?
To the left is Zhang's son,Zhang Xueliang: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Xueliang
Likely candidates for the American are:
Brigadier-General William D Connor,Commanding General of US Army forces in China, 1923 to 1926
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Durward_Connor
Brigadier-General Joseph C Castner,Commanding General of US Army forces in China, 1926 to 1929
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