On October 1, 1949, the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China, the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China, was solemnly held in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. At 3 p.m., the central leaders solemnly proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China to the world.
A grand military parade was held immediately, and the central leading comrades paraded the troops in an open-top car, and the paraded units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army included sailors' platoons, infantry divisions, artillery divisions, chariot divisions, and cavalry divisions, lined up in a phalanx, marched majestically and majestically, and passed through Tiananmen Square in columns from east to west. At the same time, the newly formed People's Liberation Army Air Force fighters, bombers, and transport planes flew through Tiananmen Square for inspection.
Most notably, a heroic young officer piloting the Large American Transport Aircraft No. 8003 was Du Daoshi, a captain of the former Kuomintang Air Force Eighth Brigade in Taiwan who had just sailed from Taiwan to revolt.
Du Daoshi, born in February 1917 in Gaotang County, Shandong Province, a family of scholars, graduated from Beiping No. 4 Middle School, and was later admitted to Huiwen Middle School, during his study, he personally experienced the vigorous 12.9 student movement in Beiping, and his thinking tended to be more progressive, and later, Du Daoshi gave up the opportunity to enter Tsinghua University for further study despite the strong persuasion of his widowed mother, and resolutely applied for the Kuomintang Aviation School.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Du Daoshi was sent to the United States to receive the B-24 new long-range bomber. During his stay in the United States, Snow and other reporters reported on the progress of the Yan'an Revolution, such as the English book "Red Star Shines on China", which became his favorite reading material. Based on the pursuit of progress and light, we have more admiration for Yan'an's revolutionary spirit of honesty and simplicity, hard struggle, and unity and resistance to Japan. And the hatred for the Kuomintang's perverse behavior, Du Daoshi had already germinated the idea of abandoning the dark and throwing in the light at this time.
At this time, Du Daoshi had a friend of Du Daoshi's classmate Liu Shanben fly to Yan'an in an uprising, which not only shook the Kuomintang air force authorities, but also raised serious questions about "where to go" to Du Daoshi and other patriotic pilots, and provided them with an example to emulate.
After Liu Shanbencheng's uprising, although the Kuomintang air force authorities tightened control over the pilots, they could not stop Du Daoshi's pursuit of light and justice.
On January 10, 1949, after the end of the Battle of Huaihai, the Kuomintang Air Force secretly stepped up preparations for fleeing Taiwan, and the Eighth Brigade of the Air Force to which Du Daoshi belonged withdrew from Hsinchu, Taiwan, and they first arranged for Du Daoshi to take his wife and daughter to Hsinchu in two planes, however, all this did not stop Du Daoshi's confidence and determination to drive the uprising.
On April 17, 1949, Du Daoshi flew a US-made C-46 transport plane to carry out the mission, everything was carried out nervously according to the predetermined plan, after sitting in the driving position, he pushed the pistol bullet into the chamber and handed it to hao Ziyi, a friend who was revolting on the same plane, pointed to his temple, and said with a serious look: "In case there is a problem with the flight, you will fight here, and you will not let them catch it alive" Hao Ziyi hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded his head.
When the hour hand is pointed to 5 o'clock, Du Daoshi completes a series of flight preparations, immediately starts the engine and increases the throttle to take off. After leaving the ground, the two looked at each other and smiled, rejoicing for the smooth take-off. In order to avoid being tracked and intercepted by enemy planes, they did not fly directly to the north, but flew towards Jinma and Xiamen in the opposite direction.
After flying to a position over the mainland, Du Daoshi immediately flew in the direction of Xuzhou Airport, because at this time Jiangnan was still the territory of the Kuomintang, Xuzhou in the north of the Jiangsu Had been liberated, and Xuzhou Airport had been occupied by our army. After Du Daoshi flew over the intersection of the Longhai and Jinpu railways, they were attacked by enemy aircraft. In order to ensure the safety of the clearance after the arrival of the aircraft, they flew low eastward away from the airport to confuse the enemy aircraft.
The enemy plane that had lost its target did not dare to circling because of the lack of oil, and soon returned to "repay the merits." At this time, Du Daoshi turned to Xuzhou Airport and flew away. After arriving near the Xuzhou military airfield, Du Daoshi immediately swung the wings, lowered the wheels, and threw an open white safety umbrella in accordance with the long-agreed contact plan, to show the intention of the plane to request landing. After the air force receivers present saw the contact code of Du Dao, they knew that it was an uprising aircraft, and hurriedly used the telephone to inform the air defense units not to shoot, but it was too late.
It turned out that the anti-aircraft artillery units of the People's Liberation Army, which were indignant about the repeated harassment of enemy planes, did not see clearly the signals they sent to request surrender, and regarded them as sneak attack planes of the Kuomintang. At the moment when the dense fire was fired at the aircraft, the decisive pilot dive to reduce the altitude, make a sharp turn out of the city, insert the runway extension line obliquely, immediately close the throttle, slide down at a large speed, the aircraft landed at two points (that is, the front main wheel was grounded first), and the bungee jump landed at one-half of the runway. It was a very thrilling landing, and thanks to Du Daoshi's firm faith and superb technology, the plane finally landed safely. After 7 and a half hours of arduous flight, with more than 200 bullet holes, Du Daoshi finally realized his dream wish.
At this time, Chen Bing, a million-strong division of the People's Liberation Army, had not yet launched the campaign to cross the river with a million male divisions across the river, and one of the important reasons was that our army had almost no air defense force at the beginning, and it was worried that the Kuomintang aircraft would bomb our army on a large scale, causing unnecessary casualties. On the third day of the uprising, a million heroic divisions crossed the river with great momentum, and Chiang Kai-shek did not dare to send more planes to bomb them; an important reason was that they were worried that those pilots, all of whom learned from Du Daodao, simply threw themselves into the arms of the Platon Army with their planes.
Du Daoshi's uprising in such an important period played a very important and positive role in the battle of crossing the river in the Liberation War. To this end, the central leadership attached great importance to Du Daoshi's uprising and arranged for him to participate in the aircraft parade at the founding ceremony. Subsequently, he was appointed as the training director and assistant instructor of the Air Force Command, the leader of the independent brigade, the regimental commander, and later promoted to the rank of adviser to the full division. In recognition of his special contributions, Du Daoshi was awarded the Order of Liberation of the Third Class by the Central Military Commission.