Notes on Deng Hua’s Report [1] Concerning the Engagement Between Sailing Boats and Enemy Warships (May 19, 1950), forwarded to the Third Field Army and copied to the Naval Command: This [2] constitutes the People’s Navy’s first heroic feat and should be studied and commended. Printed from the manuscript by Mao Zedong on May 19. Notes: [1] Deng Hua was then Commander of the Fifteenth Corps of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. [2] Refers to the account in Deng Hua’s report of May 17, 1950, addressed to the Military Commission and the Headquarters of the Fourth Field Army, detailing how a unit of the Forty-third Army of the Fifteenth Corps—consisting of three small sailing boats carrying forty to fifty men—bravely engaged three or four enemy warships.