As we all know, after the founding of New China, the mainland also held a huge medal ceremony for a group of soldiers with outstanding achievements. At this ceremony, the mainland also appointed many founding generals, and none of them fought on the battlefield without sacrificing their lives for the birth of new China. But among this group of great people, there is a person who is very special, the other generals are wearing the battle medals of the new China, and his chest is full of Soviet battle medals, he missed all the wars on the mainland perfectly, not a single battle he did not participate in, but he eventually became the founding major general of the mainland. Moreover, the party organizations attached great importance to him and directly handed over to him all the air force units on the mainland. So who was this general who returned from the Soviet Union? Why did he come back? And why did he become the founding major general of the mainland as soon as he returned? Why did the Party organization value him so much and directly hand over the Air Force's national defense forces to him?
Although this general was named Tang Duo, although he did not participate in the mainland war of resistance, he also made outstanding contributions in the world anti-fascist war. Tang Duo went to the Soviet Union at the age of twenty-one, and after that he became a soldier in the Soviet Union, fighting tenaciously on the battlefield of anti-fascism. After the founding of New China, because of the needs of the motherland, Comrade Tang Duo returned to the motherland and wanted to build a beautiful new China together.
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Tang Duo was born in 1904 in the Hunan region of the mainland, because Tang Duo's father was a teacher, so Tang Duo's quality of life when he was a child was relatively good. As a teacher, Tang Duo's father is naturally very concerned about Tang Duo's educational knowledge, Tang Duo was built by Tang Duo when he was young, and Tang Duo also went directly to his father's private school when he was four years old, and officially began to study. And the solid foundation that Father Tang had laid for Tang Duo before was also radiant at this time. Tang Duo's performance in private schools is very prominent, all academic achievements are far ahead of his peers, the efficiency of reading and literacy, the memory and understanding of excellent articles, Tang Duo is far ahead of his peers.
Tang Duo
When Tang Duo was twelve years old, he was also successfully admitted to the Hunan Normal Affiliated Primary School. In the life of the school, Tang Duo also met many peers, all of whom were like-minded and advanced elements with lofty aspirations, which was undoubtedly an extremely powerful boost for the later Tang Duo. In the process of Tang Duo's growth, he also witnessed the motherland being bullied by foreign forces, and his small body also gave birth to a heart to save the country. But unfortunately, although Tang Duo's father was a teacher, his family was still very poor, and he gradually began to be unable to do anything for Tang Duo to study. In the end, Tang Duo was also forced to drop out of school, and although Tang Duo was very filial and did not have the conditions to continue studying, he did not feel dissatisfied with his parents, but helped the family to do some farm work every day.
Not long after Tang Duo dropped out of school, the teachers at the school sent a good news. Because when Tang Duo was in school, he studied very seriously and his talent also successfully achieved countless good results, so the teachers of the school also liked him very much, and after learning that Tang Duo had to choose to drop out of school because of his poor family, he also felt very sorry after giving up his studies. At this time, the school unexpectedly obtained a place to study in France, so the teacher immediately thought of Tang Duo, and after explaining the stakes of the matter clearly, Tang Duo also understood that if he wanted to continue studying, this was the only way. Went to France for further study abroad and work-study in the positions offered by the school.
After making the decision, Tang Duo consulted with his parents, and after obtaining his parents' consent, he also began to pack his luggage, and then returned to school with his luggage, went to study abroad, and was arranged in the preparatory class for work-study in France. In this preparatory class, Tang Duo also made a deep friendship with many revolutionary friends, after successfully arriving in France, Tang Duo's work-study road seems to be more difficult, because he does not understand French, so after arriving at the local school, it is difficult to communicate with others normally, after a period of bad French, Tang Duo is gradually improving his life, but also can enter the factory, really start his own work-study road, but every day in addition to busy studies in school, He also had to go to the factory to do heavy manual labor, which was undoubtedly very difficult for the young Sugar, but even if the conditions were too difficult, Tang Duo did not shout a tired, and he was still self-reliant and completed his studies and work in the factory.
Group photo of Tang Duo
Because of the experience of studying in France, Tang Duo also reached a consensus with many advanced elements, and in the face of the aggression of foreign powers, they organized students to carry out revolutionary struggles together, and successively participated in the World Society of Engineering, as well as the 28 Movement, and so on. Comrade Tang Duo, on the other hand, gradually became the main leader of the student union of the French Revolution in this group of advanced elements. Tang Duo also attracted more young students because of the gradual increase in the spread of communism, but it was precisely because of their increasing number that eventually led to the dissatisfaction of the French government with them and began to restrict many of their activities.
Tang Duo gradually became the leader of the work-study students studying in France, and during a lecture, Tang Duo also found that a university was criminally oppressing students on the mainland. As a result, Tang Duo led many international students to begin to resist, demanding that the university restore the legitimate seat of mainland students in the university, but the French university strictly refused this reasonable request. After the negotiations were fruitless, Tang Duo led the students to a large-scale demonstration to resist, and the final result of this was that Tang Duo and others were arrested and imprisoned by the French police.
Although Tang Duo and others were arrested and imprisoned by the French police because of this operation, they did not choose to stop their struggle. Until 1921, the French government, because of its extreme dissatisfaction with Tang Duo and others, finally decided to expel Tang Duo and others, and Tang Duo's two-year study abroad life in France also came to an end. However, within the two years that Tang Duo studied in France, he also developed a large number of students and workers to carry out revolutionary activities, gathered many scattered students together, and propagated revolutionary ideas together, and finally successfully developed many advanced young people with progressive ideas, and also enabled more compatriots to join the torrent of this struggle.
Aviation saves the country
In the process of studying in France, Tang Duo also knew that there was a huge gap in military strength between the mainland and the French powers. As a result, Tang Duo had the idea of saving the mainland by increasing his military strength. In the Second World War, the combat effectiveness of the Air Force was undoubtedly breathtaking, and it could even be said to be a decisive force, but the mainland really did not have any air force at that time, which was undoubtedly a huge shortcoming of the mainland, so Tang Duo wanted to develop the mainland's aviation strength after returning to China, in order to complete his dream of saving the country and saving the people.
Tang Duo studied Soviet technology
After returning to China, Tang Duo told his parents about this idea, and fortunately his father knew a more capable person. With the help of this nobleman, Tang Duo also successfully joined the aircraft factory under the Kuomintang and began to contact the aviation industry. Later, because Tang Duo showed positive efforts in his studies and worked very seriously, Tang Duo was also admitted to the Kuomintang's military flight school. Coupled with Tang Duo's dedication to the concept of aviation to save the country, so that his studies in this area are also very serious, so that his results are also outstanding among the same batch of students, and finally the Kuomintang authorities decided to send Tang Duo to the Soviet Union for further study to learn aviation related knowledge.
According to the original idea of the Kuomintang authorities, after two years of study in the Soviet Union, Tang Duo would return to the motherland and then participate in the Northern Expedition. However, after Tang Du went to the Soviet Union to study, in just one year, the Kuomintang launched a coup d'état, which killed countless people of the two parties, and the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was also declared broken. At that time, the students studying in the Soviet Union also had different choices. Some of them firmly supported the Kuomintang, but people like Tang Duo were resolutely opposed to Chiang Kai-shek, believing that All of Chiang Kai-shek's actions were immoral, and that they could not really make great contributions to the people and give the people the life they wanted. As we all know, the Soviet Union is the origin of communism, under the influence of Soviet communism, Tang Duo also has a deeper understanding of communism, so it is also after Chiang Kai-shek launched a coup d'état, Su Duo also turned to continue to support communism to save China.
Therefore, when the Kuomintang gathered students who went to the Soviet Union for further study and returned to China to serve the Kuomintang army, Tang Duo and others chose to continue to stay in the Soviet Union for further study. When Tang Duo and others continued their further studies in the Soviet Union, they also successfully made contact with the Communist Party organizations on the mainland, and in the second year of their stay to continue their studies, they successfully joined our party organization and became a member of the Communist Party on the mainland.
Group photo of Tang Duo's family
However, after Tang Duo and others joined the Communist Party, the Party organization did not approve their request to return to China to participate in the War of Resistance, because at that time, our Party organization's understanding of military forces in the air force field was very scarce. There was no chance for Tang Duo and others to show their fists and feet, so it was decided to let Tang Duo and others continue their further studies in the Soviet Union until our Party organization had enough ability to create a stage for Tang Duo and others to show their fists and feet, and then return to the motherland.
Because he was temporarily unable to return to the embrace of the motherland and fight with the party organization, Tang Duo also continued to study desperately in the Soviet Union. In his almost crazy study, he also successfully entered many aviation military academies in the Soviet Union for further study. I hope that one day, when I return to the motherland, I will be able to take the most advanced aviation technology in the world at that time to serve the motherland, to repay the help of the party organization for myself, and to create a better, more harmonious and more beautiful world for the proletariat on the mainland and the people on the mainland.
The ancients clouded, and gold always glowed. Although Tang Duo was in the Soviet Union, his knowledge of the field of aviation was also accumulated to an appalling level, and he successfully attracted the attention of the Soviet military. So the Soviet Union decided to absorb Tang Duo into the Soviet army. Tang Duo also won great glory for the mainland in the Soviet Union, when he served in the Soviet Air Force, he once served as the vanguard of the Soviet Air Performance, led the air combat troops to fly over Red Square, and even received the Soviet President at the end.
In addition, Tang Duo's treatment in the Soviet Union was also the highest among the students at that time. After he was admitted to an excellent university in the Soviet Union, Tang Duo was hired as an instructor by this university in the Soviet Union because his grades were too good, which shows that Tang Duo's achievements in the field of aviation are extraordinary. Under the tutelage of Tang Duo, the Soviet Union also gave birth to many famous air force officers, and eventually Tang Duo was awarded the rank of lieutenant general by the Soviet authorities because of his great contribution to the education of the Soviet army.
Stalin's defense
However, soldiers who had not been on the battlefield could not truly understand the cruelty of the battlefield after all, so Tang Duo applied to join the war in the Soviet Union many times and fought against the fascist forces. Finally, in 1944, Tang Duo participated in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. And in this war, Tang Duo finally truly knew how cruel the war was and how anti-human fascism was.
After successfully participating in the war, many of Tang Duo's theories were finally combined with time, and his layout in air combat became more and more meticulous and mature. After participating in the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union, Tang Duo also received more attention in the eyes of the Soviet authorities. The supreme commander of the Soviet Air Force even said bluntly that the air force combat unit led by Tang Duo was already the ace unit of the Soviet Air Force, and it can be said that Tang Duo single-handedly brought the relationship between the mainland and the Soviet Union closer again.
Embark on the journey home
In 1949, New China was finally established, and Tang Duo finally accepted the motherland's request to return to the team. This time, Tang Duo was finally able to start to realize his dream and use his own strength to help this country build the most advanced air force combat unit in the world, but Comrade Tang Duo's performance in the Soviet Union was undoubtedly very eye-catching, and the Soviet side was naturally unwilling to let go of such an outstanding talent as Comrade Tang Duo, so Tang Duo's return was also very difficult.
The cruelty of the anti-fascist war
In the mainland, at the beginning of its establishment, the great man put an excellent general on the mainland responsible for forming the first air force unit on the mainland, and this excellent general was called Liu Yalou. However, Comrade Liu Yalou was very embarrassed and had no confidence in this task. He knew very little about the formation of the Air Force, and the only thing he knew was a long time ago, at a Soviet military academy. After thinking about it, in order to complete the most important task entrusted by the party organization, he decided to go to the Soviet Union again for further study, and after arriving in the Soviet Union, he clearly stated to the Soviet authorities that he must see Tang Duo this time.
Both Liu Yalou and Tang Duo participated in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, so the Soviet side finally agreed to Comrade Liu Yalou's request. The only thing that distinguished Tang Duo and Liu Yalou was that Comrade Liu Yalou returned to the northeast region of the mainland in 1945 with the Red Army of the Soviet Union to fight against the Japanese invaders' Kwantung Army, and thus was able to return home smoothly. On the other hand, Tang Duo never had the opportunity to return to China, and organizationally he always expressed that he would continue to study in the Soviet Union and learn the advanced air force knowledge of the Soviet Union, until after the founding of New China, the first powerful air combat unit was formed for the mainland.
When the long-separated comrades-in-arms reunited, Tang Duo always expressed to Liu Yalou his desire to return to China to participate in the construction of new China. Liu Yalou also said that he came to the Soviet Union this time because the great man asked him to form the first air force on the mainland, and the first air force on the mainland was not possible without Tang Duo. Therefore, Liu Yalou went to the Soviet Union specifically to study on the one hand, and on the other hand, his task was to find opportunities to bring Tang Duo back to the motherland. However, for such an indispensable talent as Tang Duo, the Soviet side was naturally reluctant to return it to the mainland. It was not until the mainland and the Soviet side had many exchanges that in 1953, Premier Zhou once again proposed to the Soviet authorities to take Tang Duo back to China, and this time the Soviet side was forced by the pressure of public opinion to finally choose to let Tang Duo return to the motherland.
The Chinese Aeronautical Society was established
Before Tang Duo's return to the mainland, General Chen Geng, a famous general on the mainland, also founded a military engineering school on the mainland in the Harbin area, including a school for training the air force. Therefore, after General Chen Geng learned the news of Tang Duo's return to the motherland, he rushed to Tang Duo's place and wanted to invite Tang Duo to his school, and Tang Duo returned to China thinking of joining the air combat unit, which was his old job, and if he joined this unit, he would definitely be able to fully exert his strength very quickly. However, what Lin Chen did not expect was that after returning to the motherland, he did not let him participate in the war, but hoped that he could cultivate more air force talents for the motherland. Although it was different from the initial expectations, Tang Duo also gladly accepted this task.
A month after returning to China, Tang Duo went to the Harbin Military Engineering Academy, where General Chen Geng was located, and became a director of the engineering college's Air Force Training Base. Tang Duo worked with Soviet experts to train the air force seedlings selected from all over the mainland, and because of the military qualities he had retained in the Soviet Patriotic War, he was also very strict with his upcoming students.
Post-meeting interview
In the 1950s, New China had just completed the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, but the global situation at that time was not optimistic. In some areas, there are still wars, and the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union has gradually begun, and in this environment, Tang Duo also believes that there is a possibility of conflict again. Under this conflict, the mainland may inevitably be involved in war, so Tang Duo believes that although he is only teaching students, he must strictly manage these students. In order to deal with possible future wars, let these students play their due role and escort the people of the mainland.
Tang Duo also actively cultivated outstanding air force talents after returning to the motherland and made outstanding contributions to the development of the mainland's air combat forces. Therefore, two years after returning to China, in the first award ceremony of the mainland, Tang Duo also became a major general in the PLA Air Force unit of the mainland, and he was also the only general on the mainland who had a Medal of Merit of the Soviet Army on his chest, but he was a general who received the rank of founding major general of the mainland.
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And for those who know tang duo's contributions to new China, the fact that Tang Duo became the founding major general of the mainland is absolutely deserved. He studied for many years in the Soviet Union, also because the organization hoped that he would be able to learn enough about the formation of the Air Force. Come and make plans for the founding of New China. He also participated in the world anti-fascist war and made outstanding contributions to the peace of the people of the world in this war. After returning to the motherland, he made great contributions to the formation of the mainland's air force and the cultivation of outstanding air force talents. Therefore, the contribution he made was actually no less important to the mainland than the contribution made by any founding general, and Tang Duo's becoming the founding major general of the mainland was definitely deserved.
In the days that followed, Tang Duo also made great contributions to the mainland in many fields, and in every task post assigned by the party organization, he achieved the ultimate he could achieve. It was not until 1983 that Tang Duo finally died at the age of eighty due to illness. General Tang Duo's biggest regret in this life may be that he was not able to personally fight for the mainland on the battlefield. However, I think that the many excellent air force fighters cultivated by General Tang Duo have also inherited The will of General Tang Duo, and General Tang Duo can also get some comfort!
General Tang Duo
The life of General Tang Duo is undoubtedly brilliant, and it is worth learning and remembering. In a distant foreign country, he was always worried about his motherland and always wanted to return to the motherland to make a contribution to the motherland, but the party organization required him to study abroad and wait for the right time to return to China. I think General Tang Duo also felt pain for this matter for a while, but this did not change his original intention. The Soviet Union's emphasis on General Tang Duo and the great benefits given to Him did not shake his heart to serve the motherland. May the general go all the way and come back often to see.
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