Seventy-nine years ago today, on October 12, 1946 (September 18, 1946), General Stilwell, Chief of General Staff of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, died of stomach cancer. General Stilwell, October 12, 1946, General Stilwell died of stomach cancer. Stilwell was born on March 19, 1883 in Palatka, Florida, USA. A U.S. Army general during World War II, he led the U.S. Army and the Chinese Nationalist Army in the Far Eastern Continent to resist Japanese attacks. He graduated from West Point Military Academy in New York in 1904 and was promoted to Army General in 1944. He first served in the Philippines, and joined the U.S. Expeditionary Force to Europe during World War I, and later served as an instructor at West Point Military Academy. He studied Chinese, served in Tianjin (1926-1929), and served as a military attache in Beijing (1935-1939). When World War II broke out, Chiang Kai-shek hired him as the chief of staff of the Chinese army and ordered him to command the Chinese 5th and 6th Corps in Burma. Defeated by the Japanese in 1942, he led the remnants to retreat to India. During the war, he commanded all US troops in China, Burma and India. In early 1945, the Ledo Highway, an Allied supply road connecting the Burma Road, was renamed the Stilwell Highway. He was later appointed commander of the US 10th Army in the Pacific theater and accepted the surrender of more than 100,000 Japanese troops in the Ryukyu Islands in August 1945. After March 1946, he served as commander of the 6th Army in San Francisco until his death. Stilwell poses with Chiang Kai-shek and his wife on the Burmese front line. Stilwell discusses the battle plan with Sun Liren (left) and Liao Yaoxiang. Stilwell and Chennault (right) do not have a good relationship