Editing Ray Huang (section)

==Early life==
Ray Huang was born in [[Ningxiang]], [[Hunan Province]], in 1918.<ref name="黄仁宇 " /> He was the oldest of three children. His father, Huang Zhenbai ({{lang|zh-Hans|黄震白}}), was an early member of the revolutionary group [[Tongmenghui]] but became less active in the group over the years.{{cn|date=October 2024}} Huang grew up in Hunan and went on to study [[electrical engineering]] at [[Nankai University]], [[Tianjin]], in 1936. At the outbreak of the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] in 1938, he returned to [[Changsha]] and wrote for the ''Anti-Japanese War Report'' ({{lang|zh|《抗日战报》}}).{{cn|date=October 2024}}

Soon afterwards, Huang entered the [[Whampoa Military Academy|Republic of China Military Academy]] ({{lang|zh-Hant|中華民國陸軍官校}}) at [[Chengdu]], [[Sichuan]], and graduated in 1940. He was appointed a [[Second Lieutenant]] Platoon Leader in 1941 and was posted as a staff [[First Lieutenant]] stationed in [[India]] in 1942.{{cn|date=October 2024}} He then was a Staff [[Major (rank)|Major]] in the [[New First Army]] in the [[China Burma India Theater of World War II|Burma Theater]] from 1943 to 1945. While in Burma, he was shot through the thigh but made a complete recovery.{{cn|date=October 2024}} After the war he attended the [[United States Army Command and General Staff College|US Army Staff College]], graduated in 1947, and was aide-de-camp to the head of the Chinese military delegation participating in the [[Allied occupation of Japan]] from 1949 to 1950.{{cn|date=October 2024}} However, with the victory of the Communists in the Chinese Civil War and the escape from [[Mainland China]] of the Nationalist Army in 1949, the latter was purged of political opponents in 1950. Huang's superior in [[Japan]] was accused of Communist links and so Huang was discharged from the Nationalist Army in 1950, which ended his military career.{{cn|date=October 2024}}