Work in progress.
The Chinese Airforce grew from a small cadre of dedicated professionals, foreign volunteers and soldiers of fortune in the mid 1930's to a force that along with the 10th Airforces of the USAAC helped hold and eventually drive the Japanese out of many parts of China and South East Asia by 1945. The Chinese aircrews of the late 1930's were forced to fly the most obsolete of aircraft designs. Often the equipment various Foreign comissions set to China served their own purposes and not those of the Chinese people. Survivors of those days are difficult to find as they flew continuously till wars end, getting them to talk is even harder.
One veteran was a pilot who flew with the Chinese & American Composite Wing 7th Squadron 3rd fighter group that was established in 1942. By March of 1945 he was a squadron leader fighting through the wars end.
Kuang Fu Wang was born in Beijing China in 1916. He joined the Chinese airforce in 1936 training in Loyang in 1938 & graduated at Kunming in July of 1939 when he joined the fight. He was in the far west Hsinchaing province of China picking up new Russian aircraft the I-15 and I-16's when the Japanese began the intense bombing of Chunking. His commander was General Mow Pang Tsu. He flew these Russian aircraft as well and American Hawk II and III's as well as the P-40 and P-51 and P-66.
Some of the types flown by Chinese Airmen.
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