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China’s Air Force Shed Blood in Arizona during World War II Author by Homer Zhang During World War II, in order to resist the invasion of Japan and fascism, the United States built three Thunderbird Air Force Bases in Arizona, which received thousands of air force and military personnel from more than 20 countries in the world and conducted various military trainings. Among them, the Thunderbird Air Force Base in Glendale was specially used to train the Chinese Air Force.
From November 1941, when the first batch of Chinese pilots went to the United States for training, to September 1945, the United States trained more than 500 Chinese air force pilots. In the urgent and arduous training, 57 Chinese air fighters died in the training, and one was missing. Most of the places where the Chinese air force crashed were in Arizona! In the remote suburbs of the mountains covered with cacti, scattered metal fragments of crashed fighters and the blood of martyrs! They were left in the United States forever: 52 young people were buried in the Fort Bliss National Cemetery in Texas, and another 5 were buried in the National Cemetery in Georgia. In March 1942, the first batch of Chinese Air Force pilots received 35 weeks of flight training in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Picture 1 is Morse code training. Picture 2 is the graduation ceremony. After that, they returned to China to participate in the War of Resistance. American military observers at the time commented: They showed extraordinary flying talent.
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