Zhijiang Air Force Aid Xuefeng Mountain

/kloc-in the spring of 0/945, I graduated from Chengdu Central Military Academy, and was assigned to the 18th Company (antiaircraft gun company) of the Special Service Brigade of Zhijiang Airport Aviation Committee in western Hunan as the platoon leader of the second lieutenant, who was responsible for guarding the subordinate units of the airport aviation.

At that time, Zhijiang Airport had more than ten units, including the first squadron of China-US mixed brigade, the first squadron of air transport brigade, Terminal 9, No.2 factory, farm maintenance team, hospital, No.2 squadron of automobile, No.8 transfer station, navigation station, No.2 oil depot, No.14 oil depot and guest house. Zhijiang Airport is surrounded by Army, Air Force, Constitution Headquarters, Automobile 1 1, 14, 19 Regiments and Wang Air Defense Forces.

After the Battle of Xuefeng Mountain (also known as the Battle of Xiangxi) started, Zhijiang Air Force was ordered to cooperate closely with the ground forces. With the proper deployment of terminal logistics, ground crew and ground crew are working intensively in an orderly way. The ground crew includes: maintenance team, refueling team, gun cleaning team, bomb hanging team, phase cleaning team, signal team, farm maintenance team, etc. Temporary tents are set up at both ends of the runway and beside the taxiway, ready to be dispatched at any time. When the plane was in the air, each group left the tent and went to their posts to stand by and watch. After the plane stopped on the runway, they scrambled to board, overhaul, refuel, clean guns, clean guns, hang bombs and take pictures. Each duty team completed all the tasks within the specified time with skilled movements. After the mechanical leaders finally checked and signed, the signal group ordered the flight crew to board the plane and take off. Sweaty, covered in oil, and with tools in their hands, the ground crew smiled and saw off the crew athletes and wished them a triumphant return.

At that time, the activities of the air force were tense and frequent, and they were dispatched at dawn and returned at dusk. Sometimes take off at night to intercept enemy planes and evacuate by plane. On average, it is dispatched more than 8 times a day. One morning, a P5 1 reconnaissance plane was ordered to fly to Shaoyang to spy on the activities of Japanese backup forces. Although the left side of the fuselage was hit by enemy artillery fire, the explosion was bigger than the head, but the task was completed. After landing, the pilot put his head out of the cabin and took a photo, which went down in history!

Cao Xiguang and others, who were sent by our company to the United States to study shooting and bombing techniques, said that there was a plan to fly three fighter planes (P5 1) and two medium bombers (B25) to Daping in Jiangkou to cooperate with the 74th Army. At that time, the number of enemy planes was several times that of ours. Due to the resourcefulness and proper command of the pilot, the P5 1 plane led the enemy plane away from the battlefield and was lured to air combat near Wugang. The B25 plane bombed the enemy's rear in turn, causing heavy casualties to the enemy and running around. Our fighter plane destroyed and wounded an enemy plane. The destroyed fuel tank caught fire and fell to the ground to burn; The injured one ran east at high speed.

When our plane returned to land, three crew members (including an American) were injured. The fuselage of the plane is full of holes and bullet marks. Ground maintenance personnel stayed up all night for maintenance. Rosty Yi rushed to the front again.

In the battle of Xuefeng Mountain, our air force exerted its greatest power and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army. Therefore, the Japanese army regards Zhijiang Air Force Base as a "thorn in the side" and tries to "pull it out", so the bombing of Zhijiang is more frequent.

At the beginning, enemy planes attacked Zhijiang during the day to spy on the strength of our air force, air defense equipment and the location of weapons and ammunition depots. At the same time, the Japanese agency bought a large number of traitors, collected military intelligence for them and instructed the bombing target. The enemy attacked Zhijiang airport with bombers and fighter planes. Cunning enemy planes flew low over the periphery of the airport, which made our air defense weapons unable to exert their firepower, resulting in the bombing of many airports, the destruction of aircraft to be repaired, and the bombing of the peripheral arsenal, which caused great losses.

After we learned this painful lesson, the ground, air and defense forces were redeployed and closely coordinated, so that the firepower crossed into a net, and enemy planes dared not shoot and bomb at low altitude, so they could only drop bombs at high altitude. In this way, our losses will be much smaller. When our air force fighters confronted each other, they returned fire and dropped two enemy planes and crashed outside the airport.

After the enemy plane was hit by this, it dared not come during the day and attacked Zhijiang at night. Whenever enemy planes fly over the sky, the hateful traitors will fire flares to instruct to bomb the target, causing different degrees of losses to all points of our army. Because it was difficult to wipe out the traitors for a while, the air force authorities formulated a plan of "confusing the fake with the real": when the air raid alarm was issued, the ground crew of the subordinate unit evacuated in the mountains and rivers with flare guns in their hands, and when the enemy plane was in the air, they sent out signals to induce the enemy to drop bombs. The flares fired around Sri Lanka are red and green, and yellow and blue cross. The enemy plane was at a loss and threw itself at random.

Soon, the Allies dispatched two planes code-named "Black Widow" from the United States, which was the most advanced aircraft at that time. After the "black widow" entered the air battle, it accelerated the victory of the Xiangxi campaign.