Picture shows soldiers assigned to the 8th Company of an artillery brigade under the PLA 74th Group Army firing towed howitzers against mock targets at night. The predecessor of the company was the 5th Company, 26th Regiment, 1st Artillery Division of the CPV. In October 1950, before the CPV troops set off to fight during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Ma Fuyao, the political instructor of the 5th Company wrote a passionate poem overnight, which was composed into the famous song, "Battle Hymn of the Chinese People's Volunteers ". (jmhuiquan.com/Photo by Huang Hai)