On the eve of the International Museum Day on May 18, the Nanjing Anti-Japanese Aviation Martyrs Memorial Hall completed the corrigendum and supplementation of the information of the first batch of 18 Chinese anti-Japanese aviation martyrs. Among them, two martyrs were confirmed to be women, which is also the second and third female anti-Japanese aviation martyrs found among the 1,468 Chinese anti-Japanese aviation martyrs on the martyrs' monument.
"Chen Nai'an, Zhejiang Wenling", "Fang Zhaoxiang, Guangxi Lingyun"...... On the 17th, the reporter came to the monument to the martyrs of the anti-Japanese aviation and found that the information of the 18 Chinese martyrs of the anti-Japanese aviation on the monument had been completed and supplemented. For example, Chen Nai'an's original place of origin was blank, and "Zhejiang Wenling" was added this time; Fang Zhaoxiang's original hometown was written as "Guangdong Lingyun", and this time it was revised to "Guangxi Lingyun".
On the 17th, the Nanjing Anti-Japanese Aviation Martyrs Memorial Hall announced the first batch of anti-Japanese aviation martyrs information errata list. Photo by correspondent Ben Fang Nanjing Daily/Purple Mountain News reporter Duan Renhu
"Guo Cailing, Trainee (female), Tong'an, Fujian, 1921—1943.4.20", "Hou Ziqin, Student(female), Tianjin, 1921—1943.5.18"...... Among them, the names of the two heroes are followed by "(female)", which is very eye-catching. "Previously, we only knew the names of the martyrs, and we could not confirm their gender." The relevant staff of the Nanjing Anti-Japanese Aviation Martyrs Memorial Hall said that among the 1,468 Chinese anti-Japanese aviation martyrs on the martyrs' monument, Lu Meiyin, a flight attendant hero who sacrificed herself to save others, was the only female anti-Japanese aviation martyr found before. In April this year, with the joint efforts of the media and cultural and historical workers in Xiamen, two more anti-Japanese aviation martyrs were confirmed to be women, one of them was Guo Cailing, a returned overseas Chinese from Vietnam, and the other was Hou Ziqin, a student majoring in physical education at Chongqing University.
Guo Cailing was a student of the gliding training class, and died in a gliding crash on April 20, 1943 at Phoenix Mountain in Chengdu, at the age of 22. Xiamen literary and historical workers found a newspaper on January 8, 1943, which published an article entitled "Visiting the Gliding Class", which read: "A tall (tall) man is Guo Cai (Cai) Ling, a Chinese-Vietnamese mixed-race daughter. She misses her homeland and her parents and brothers in Vietnam...... and there is also a picture from the first issue of Glide magazine in 1946, which features a photograph of a young woman in high spirits, captioned "Instructor Quoc Cai Ling".
The accompanying picture in the magazine "Gliding" (No. 1, 1946) is captioned "Female Instructor Guo Cailing".
Like Guo Cailing, female student Hou Ziqin also died in a crash while participating in gliding training. On March 1, 1944, Ta Kung Pao (Guilin Edition) published the article "Yaoshan Performance Wreck", it was written: "On April 20, 1943, Ms. Guo Cailing, a student of the gliding training class, and Ms. Hou Ziqin, both crashed in Fenghuang Mountain, Chengdu on May 18 of the same year. ”
Top Gun: China's first generation of pilots
The average age at the time of sacrifice was only 23 years old
The early days of the Anti-Japanese War
The Chinese Air Force has only about 300 fighters
The performance is relatively backward
Due to the period of the Anti-Japanese War
The National Government did not have the capacity to produce fighters
One is lost, one is missing
The Japanese army has thousands of fighters with excellent performance
And it's still in production
During the Sino-Japanese War
The Chinese Air Force shot down or damaged more than 1,000 Japanese planes
Lost more than a thousand military aircraft on their own
More than 4,000 officers and soldiers of the Air Force have lost their lives
Some of them come from top universities
Some are returned overseas Chinese
Some are from famous families and have good family backgrounds
They used to dream
Some are movie stars
Some are businessmen
And at the moment when they make their choice
Life is no longer one's own
When they sacrificed
The average age is only 23 years old
At the entrance of the flight school that trained them was set up with the motto:
Our bodies, planes and bombs
Die with the enemy's warship positions!
It's not just a slogan
Rather, it was a will they wrote when they were in their prime
Salute! Remember!