Above the Han River, near Yoju, he told his pilot to go down for a closer look. The plane’s rotor hit a cable. It crashed. U.S. infantry engineers helped the two men from the wreckage.

Gazing at the burial pits of Xuzhou’s Han Dynasty tombs in Yunlong Park ... row after row of infantry and horses sketched in rough, grey earthen clay. China’s other terracotta army.