S4-E40 - Pirate Patriot & Guerilla Grandma: Huang Bamei - 黃八妹

The press called her a “two-pistol-packing” grandma. She
witnessed and participated in the chaos of warlord China, World
War II, and the CCP-KMT civil war. 





For a time, she was a criminal. Later she became a household name
for her bravery in fighting the Japanese and then the Communists,
resisting right up to the evacuation of Dachen Islands in 1955.





Huang Bamei died in Taipei in 1982 (age 76) after devoting
the last decades of her long and action-packed life to caring for
children orphaned by the Chinese Civil War; an amazing life that,
quite honestly John and Eryk would rather talk about than have
lived through. 





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