Norman Bethune

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Mar 3, 1890. Canadian physician who worked in the front lines during WWI, the Spanish Civil War and the Chinese Revolution. Bethune was born at Gravenhurst, ON; he died at age 49 at China while treating a soldier of Mao’s Eighth Route Army, Nov 11, 1939. He is said to be the only Western man recognized as a hero of the Chinese Revolution.

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