佟麟阁是抗日战争中殉国的第一个高级将领。时任二十九军副军长兼军官教导团团长。然而对其死其说不一:有的说在日军进犯南苑时,他亲临阵地指挥,被日军炮弹炸死;有的说军官教导团的战士装迫击炮弹时,由于操作不熟练,至使炮身爆炸,他当场身亡;有的说在南苑被日军占领后,他率部撤退到大红门郊野被日军飞机扫射中弹 Tong Lin Court is the first senior general to be martyred in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. When the twenty-ninth army when the deputy commander and officer taught the regiment. However, its death varied: some said that when the Japanese army invaded Nanyuan, he personally commanded the ground and was killed by Japanese artillery shells. Some said when military officers taught the warriors to install mortar shells, due to unskillful operation, So that the barrel explosion, he died on the spot; some said that after the Japanese occupation of Nanyuan, he led his troops retreated to the suburbs of Dahongmen bombed by Japanese aircraft