Dai Anlan (Chinese: 戴安瀾; Wade–Giles: Tai An-lan; 25 November 1904 – 26 May 1942) was a major general of the Republic of China.

He was posthumously promoted to lieutenant general by Chiang Kai-shek and awarded the Legion of Merit medal by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

[1] After graduating from Whampoa in early 1926, Dai was appointed a platoon commander in the National Revolutionary Army.

[2] The British requested assistance from China, and the Kuomintang government sent 100,000 troops to fight in the Burma Campaign.

[2] Dai's 200th Division served as the vanguard of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and reached Toungoo in lower Burma on 8 March 1942.

In 1944, when the Japanese launched the Operation Ichi-Go and attacked Guangxi, Dai's coffin was temporarily moved to Guiyang for protection.

After the end of World War II, a permanent tomb was built for him on the scenic Mount Zhe [zh] in Wuhu, overlooking his hometown.

[7][9] His request was granted, and Fudong later donated the medal and certificate to the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution.

[8] In 1975, the Chunghwa Post of Taiwan issued a set of six stamps to commemorate the 30th anniversary of victory over Japan, featuring six national heroes who died in the war: Zhang Zizhong, Gao Zhihang, Sa Shijun, Xie Jinyuan, Yan Haiwen, and Dai Anlan.

[9] When the Kuomintang lost the Chinese Civil War in 1949, Wang and her children were offered the chance to retreat to Taiwan with the government.

Fudong became a distinguished architect who was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering;[12] Fanli, the only daughter, enlisted in the People's Volunteer Army during the Korean War; Jingdong was a professor of the Nanjing Institute of Technology, and Chengdong was a senior hydraulic engineer in Jiangsu province.