2.In May 1942 a gruff Soviet divisioncommander thew up his hands in dismay when he learned that a new regiment of combat pilots assigned to him consisted of 254 women, most of them less then 20 years old.
3.At the satellite cantonment of the 5th division of the PLA, brigade commander comrade Santosh had a glint of pride in his eyes when he told us that battalion commander, comrade Sanjana, a woman and a dalit, and now an MP of the interim legislature, is from his brigade.
4.When we fought in the past, a field army had only a few leaders, as did an army group, an army-level unit or a division. In some divisions the commander was also the political commissar. He was assisted by one or two deputy political commissars, and they all co-operated very well.
5.Beginning in 1938 we worked together for 13 years, first in the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, where he served as commander and I as political commissar, and then in the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army, the Central Plains Field Army and the Second Field Army.
