Where is tsingtao china

Hello all. Before it was brought home and surplussed out to other agencies. I am looking for any pictures of the Liaison, or Artillery Spotting squadron that was based in China during that time frame. It has been nearly 25 years of restoration to get this hulk of an airplane turned back into an airplane.

Pictures, stories, anecdotes, anything along those lines would be of any help and would be greatly appreciated and will not be used for anything but reconstruction of this airplane. Freeman GH was in the 6th Division.

I just realized this recently when copying old photos for a Veterans event. I know dad was there and came home in , He did say that where he stayed the landlord? He died in He brought my mom home a bright orange kimono, lined with bright green and a large purple dragon on the back. When Dad sent letters to Mom, a friend of his would draw beautiful Chinese girls on the envelope to make Mom jealous.

Dad was called back for the Korean War and was getting on the ship to leave when they pulled him off. He and Mom already had 3 kids and she found out that I was on the way. We had a lot of memorabilia of his time there around the house when we were kids. I think my sister still has some. All he would say is that his division would take the train s into the mountains as far as they would go, then hike the rest of the way to pick up our American pilots before the Communists got to them, after the pilots had ditched their planes due to no fuel.

He would not speak of the time there; perhaps it was too overwhelming for him. I have since discovered that the operation was called Operation Beleaguered. He was assigned to the 1st Division Marines during his time there.

Thank you for posting what you all can. He never spoke of it except for that one time and has since passed away. I am only now going through my parents photographs and I have approximately a hundred pictures of his time in China. I found this website when i was googled Tsingtao which was on the back of one of the pictures. This site puts things into perspective for me and thanks to all to have contributed comments.

My father Harold Redinger was senior corpsman with Recon co. Thank you for this trip and the pictures. He never spoke of his duty there and he passed away back in His name was Robert F. Bob Heeney. I stared developing a family tree a few years back and through Ancestry. Bob got out of the Marines about or so married my sister. They had seven children and he owned a home remodeling business in Seattle, WA. Just recently many hints came in about him and other Heeney relatives from Ancestry.

I did a little research and found this website so I had to find out more. Well, one of the first things I see is a photo 27 in the series on this site that looks a lot like our Bob. Not real sure as the photo is grainy but the information on the site about what the missions were at least gave us and his children a little knowledge of what Bob did in China. So Frank took off and changed his name to Frank Haney and he lied about his age so he could join in the next country over at his new age of Sounds a bit like our Bob.

Thank you, and thank you all for your service. Fred, thanks for a great website. It has been 8 or 9 years since you posted this, and I hope it is still active.

Navy transport ship as a Navy dependant as we evacuated mostly Americans from Shanghai and thenTsingtao out of China in circa March We were returning from Subic Bay, P. I remember climbing one of St. Nationalist vs. The Red Army, or perhaps either against the Japanese. Can you recommend a source that I can research for exactly who may have been fighting at the time, and perhaps what U.

Navy transport ships were evacuating personnel? I have a pewter beer mug given me by a Marine friend named Richard Sansom who has since passed on. A great website! I enjoyed the letters written you about experiences in the area. The U. Marines in Northern China by Henry Shaw is a good source.

It is available on Amazon and eBay. I suspect the Nationalists and Communists were fighting as the Japanese had retreated back into the city. Post a photo of the beer mug if you can. Best Fred. Hello, my brother was a china marine he said his barracks was in a girls school on Roosevelt Rd.

I think he was discharged in and was back in again when Korea broke out in I think he said he had the same CO when he went back in as he had in china. Thank You. My grandfather met my grandmother in Tsingtao China while he was in the Marines. My mother was born in Tsingtao and we are trying to locate a birth certificate or any documentation. My father was in Tsingtao China and after he passed away in I was given some of his documents from the Marines. I have 2 of the same copies that look like a proclamation.

I also have a paper that has a list of the names of Marines along with my dad Fred Gutierrez that were promoted to Private and Private First Class. The document is missing the top that had the date.

It is ok to post my email. Hi Fred, great website and letters. I was a teenage Navy brat on a Navy Transport that stopped in Shanghai and then Tsingtao to evacuate Americans from the area, and remember climbing one of St. As a 16 year old, I was noy too interested, Can you suggest some resources that I can research? I have a pewter beer mug given me by a deceased Marine frined named Richard Sanson with his name inscribed and the years I was in Tsingtao China in My memories are not as good as they used to be but I did have a silk dragon sewed into the inside of my Marine Uniform when I left.

I also rode in a rickshaw and remember a good friend at base camp Soong Lin Gu. I do have some pictures I can send a few. I believe my father was also in 15th marines of 6th div.

He was in China. Second lieutenant. Any info in your files about him would be welcome. Passed away My Father Dale Gutshall was in the Marine group that liberated the concentration camp in Weisein where my mother was interred. I have pictures of them with Keith Keller. I have pictures of him that he sent to my sister, believe he was from the Hammond, Indiana area. Would like to return them to his family if possible.

Handsome young man and believe they were dating at the time. Believe he arrived in late and left when the city was evacuated in early At the insistence of the nuns, he and his fellow Marine, Mike Gargano Chicago , were told they were never to see the boys again.

If anyone has any information about what became of Lu and Charlie, it would be greatly appreciated. Charlie is also referenced in one of the posts below. If you want to learn more about that time in Tsingtao, highly recommend searching youtube for his name and watching the two-part, one-hour interview from a few years ago that was broadcast on a local NC TV station.

If you have family or loved ones that were China Marines, or perhaps lived there between and , suggest you see if you can pick up a copy of the book.

Still searching for Jingle Bells, so if there are any leads, would greatly appreciate hearing from you. Hi Chris, Maybe your dad knew my dad who was about 12 years older and died in at the age of My dad was 2nd Lt. Warren P.

My mom took my brother and I to Panama where we lived with my grandparents who were stationed at Ft. Amador in the old Canal Zone. We would like to know if you dad knew of him. Thanks, Bob Baker. Upon finishing school George was sent to Tsingtoa China.

I believe he stayed until Mau Ta Tsing took over China. I later got up with George in Korea. Both of us were wounded and wound up on the same hospital ship.

I kept up with George over the years but have gotten no response for several years. My name is Juergen Boettcher. I was born in Tsingtao in and lived there with my German parents Ursula and Wolfgang Boettcher until early , then in Shanghai.

My parents were very friendly with a number of Marines, Tony DeGrassi is one name that I remember mentioned. In I attended first grade at the Tsingtao American School. Anyone else? Was anyone in contact with my parents? I met the captain of the ship that took us out about 20 years ago in an art class here in Laurel MD. I know my dad said The few ships that were to stay for the 2 weeks till all could get to the harbor but their ship was being fired on constantly and when his ship was given the orders to leave it was on the th day.

They waited as long as they safely could. We lived on the bay, I believe it was called Russian beach, that had the C. T tower on the point. Our home was a 2 story building in a compound. We lived on second floor and an army colonel and family lived on the first floor. The house faced the beach across the road. There was not a house very close to our home. Have some pictures of that area.

I also went to the American School that shared a driveway with a Chinese school. Would love to see that area today. I wonder if that area would be recognizable to me.

My much older brother had his 3rd birthday in Tsing-Tao in Dad was in the Navy and in charge of the machine shop, I think. I think he was there about a year longer. Juergen, I am the daughter of Antonio Tony de Grassi. Can we get in touch? My email is: ginadegrassi gmail. My dad was stationed there also. I have his scrapbook with photos. I will have to see if I scanned all of them. He is in several photos. Greguras: I was a little emotional reading your article today.

I was born in Qingdao in , and left Qingdao with my parents in According to my parents, we left Qingdao with the last ship of the 7th Fleet. My parents rarely mention any details except that my father worked for the Nationalist Chinese Government in They did leave some old photos.

I briefly visited Qingdao in for the first time after I left in In the near future I will visit again for a longer period. I would appreciate any information you can shed about the story in May when US Marine and the 7th Fleet left Qingdao. Thanks for sharing all of this, Fred. My dad, John R.

He and my mom, who is still doing great at 92, used to go to the Sixth Division anuual reunions along with his buddy Bob Norman and his wife Bobbi both gone now. If anyone has any info or memories, my family and I would love to know.

Hi Priscilla, the 6th Marine Division was in Tsingtao, now Qingdao, so your father would have been there and would have recognized many of the places mentioned. My dad was part of Seabees who landed just after the end of the war was declared. As I heard the story he came up from the Philippines on an Attack Transport would love to find the name.

They thought there might be 15, Japanese troops — approximately the same number of Marines. What he said they did not know is that a day or two before an OAS Colonel flew over the Burma Hump to deliver the terms of surrender to the Japanese General. Dad said there were , Japanese lined up along the road.

It took months processing them. His unit built an airstrip on the north end and were attacked by the 8th Route Communist Army. I would love to get more details if you have them. Hi Rex. My grandfather was stationed in Tsingtao and arrived the same time your father did. My Grandfather had a short stop in the Philippines prior to China also. He arrived in Tsingtao aboard the Samuel L.

I would love to discuss and compare stories if you are interested. Wow, what a great read and what great replies. My father was in the US Navy there is Tsingtao. Around the end of the war. My father passed years back and never talked much about his time in Tsingtao.

I have a type 26 pistol of his. All I knew about the gun wa he got it while in the Navy. But now I know it came from Tsingtao and was taken from a Japanese solder by the Chinese. It seems that when a weapon like the type 26 was captured the locals would saw off the barrels for better use while fighting close together.

Like the snob nose The serial number is very low Thanks for the read and thanks to all who replied with a post… Awesome to read them all. I was in the 22nd. A guy in the 29th brought a little boy onto the base the university grounds. After the boy grew up he made it out and settled in this country. Does anyone remember Charley Two Shoes?

And what finally happened to him? Coincidentally I was cleaning out some stuff and came across an article about Charlie Two Shoes in the Jacksonville Daily News when he visited Camp Lejeune several years ago. I was in TsingTao Qingdao in and Could I get a photo of your home in Tsingtao so I can look for it the next time I go. Thanks, Fred Greguras. I can take pics of pics in our album and send to your e-mail from my iPad.

You can contact me at the above e-mail? Long story short, I knew my Dad had been stationed in China. Shanghai was mentioned, but looking up something else, I remembered I had a newspaper clipping of when his squadron went missing for a couple of days. I have come to a brick wall trying to piece together his overseas moves from place to place, so it was a new revelation for me to see that their squadron had flown out of Tsingtao. A new base to document!

But, this is confusing. Their mission took place in December of , yet everything I can find in a half hour of searching : only relates , on, as does your wonderful website.

How can I find more history of the time period in which my Father served? Thank you very much. The clipping is not dated. I have a lot to learn. Thanks again. Oh good grief. I read your first couple of paragraphs over, again, this time using my brain.

There is no other explanation. Wow, assuming all these years. So he must have been part of this Operation! Much more to learn. Thanks for the new leads. I may have pictures of your dad Patricia. They were turned over to his company and talked about them.

You can reach me at terrysayles hotmail. Nice reading. I have many mementos of his time in Tientsin, China. Many photos with his pals and Chinese girls, A brass box with a dragon and Tientsin, China engraved on it, A leather suitcase with painted dragons and the city, a silk copy of the Ike jacket with embroidered dragons.

I would like to find out more about his unit as the only thing he ever talked about was boot camp, and very little about his time in China. His name was Boyd Beecher Bivens. Although I know from uniforms that he wore home, that he was in the 1st Marine Division, and maybe later attached to the III Amphibious, I do not know, nor can I find out, the unit he served in.

I will have to get out his discharge to verify the exact date. He also had a letter of commendation from his Commanding Officer. I do know that he was a Rifleman in his Platoon. There are more than three dozen photos in a very nice album that was made in China with the dragons and Tientsin, China on it. All of the photos are very sharp and clear.

My Father was the very best father a man could ever ask for, honorable, kind, and decent, a quiet man who did what had to be done. Hello, My father bought a leather album that says My Oriental Album with pictures in it that I suppose are from ww2. I found out that he may have been there in Tsingtao during A Brief History of Tsingtao Beer. Rachel Deason.

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The happiness sector is mainly the beer business. The health sector is composed of soda water, mineral water, health drinks and biotech products derived from beer yeast, while the fashion sector is composed of fashionable bars and craft beer gardens.

Meanwhile, Tsingtao Brewery was aware of the advantages that comes with having beer with an obvious cultural importance that reflects the history of the Chinese beer industry. The company began to create products with its advantages in mind and became a brand to hit new national tide welcomed by young people. In the beer business, the company has successfully developed a beer flavor map and launched a variety of beers that are popular with young consumers and satisfy their desire for novelty, such as white and dark beers; pure raw, puree, Pearson-types and IPAs.

It has also focused on the sports sector and targeted both young- and middle-aged men. It won the sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics and is now, the official sponsor of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The company has used old posters collected by the Tsingtao Brewery Museum in the national tide marketing. For example, an old poster showing a girl in a traditional Chinese cheongsam with the word "good" are printed on Tsingtao Beer Class retro cans.