China was at war with Japan since the 1930's. The strategic costal areas were occupied by the Japanese.
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British surrender on December
25, 1941 to Japanese |
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Occupied by the Japanese in 1939 |
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Occupied
by the Japanese for the duration of WWII |
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Occupied by Japanese after the Manchurian Incident 1931 |
Post war
Nationalist flew captured Japanese aircraft. Also,
the Communist were given captured Japanese equipment by the Russians,
against the terms of the Japanese surrender. Without their own pilots,
the Communists used former Japanese and Manchukuoans to fly with their
infant Air Force. Former Japanese planes served with both air forces
into the late 1940s and possibly early 1950s.
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Ling Airfield |
Wartime Airfield, based the USAAF 449th FS.
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| Nanking Airfield |
Wartime Airfield occupied by Japanese
Japanese Units Based at Naking
9th Sentai
(Ki-44, Ki-84)
16th & 90th Sentais (Ki-48) also based at Peking
and Hankow.
55th Dokuritsu Chutai (Ki-46) 1944
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Kweilin
Overun by the Japanese November 10, 1944. Civilians
fled the city.
| Liangtang
Airfield |
Airfield located outside Kweilin, used by the 10th AF, demolished
before the Japanese overun it in, November 10, 1944.
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Liuchow
100 miles south of Kweilin. Fell to Japanese 11th
Army in mid-November 1944.
| Liuchow
Airfield |
Location
Airfield located outside Kweilin
Wartime Usage
During the summer of 1942, a captured A6M2 Zero 3372 was repaired at this location. Used by
the 10th AF, Demolished before the Japanese overun it in November 10, 1944.
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Tushan
Town briefly occupied by Japanese in mid-November
1944. A large Allied ammunition dump was destroyed before the Japanese
arrived by American OSS party.
Kunming
City that was the life-line into China. It
was the only major city unoccupied by the Japanese. Allied lend-lease
supplies
flooded into the city first by air and later via
the Burma road from India at the end of the war.
| Kunming Airfield |
Wartime Airfield
American Units based at Kunming
AVG
51st FG, 16th FS attached to 23d FG (P-40)
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| Hankow Airfield |
Wartime airfield.
Japanese Units based at Hankow
25th Sentai (Ki-43, Ki-84) - September 1945
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