刘放吾,湖南人,1942年任入缅抗击日寇的中国远征军新38师113团团长。在当年4月著名的仁安羌战役中,他率不足1团兵力抗击日军1万余人,迫敌弃尸1200多具后逃窜,解救英军7000余人和被日军俘虏的美籍记者及传教士500余人。上个世纪90年代,英国首相撒切尔夫人曾拜访刘放吾,当面向他表示感谢与敬佩;美国总统布什也曾致函刘放吾表示敬意和谢意。 Liu Fangwu, a native of Hunan Province, was the head of the 113th Division of the New 38th Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Army who was Burma in 1942 to fight the Japanese invaders. At the famous Annan Qiang Campaign in April of that year, he led a force of less than 1 regiment against more than 10,000 Japanese troops and fleeing more than 1,200 corpses and fleeing to rescue more than 7,000 British troops and Japanese-American journalists and missionaries More than 500 people. In the 1990s, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited Liu Fangwu and expressed his gratitude and admiration for him. U.S. President George W. Bush also sent a letter of thanks and gratitude to Liu Fangwu.