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Chengdu Fenghuangshan Airport

Coordinates:30°42′19″N103°57′01″E/ 30.70528°N 103.95028°E/30.70528; 103.95028
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Chengdu Fenghuangshan Airport
Part ofFourteenth Air Force
Sichuan Province,China
Chengdu Fenghuangshan Airport is located in China
Chengdu Fenghuangshan Airport
Chengdu Fenghuangshan Airport
Coordinates30°42′19″N103°57′01″E/ 30.70528°N 103.95028°E/30.70528; 103.95028
TypeMilitary
Site history
Battles/warsChina Defensive Campaign 1942-1945

Chengdu Fenghuangshan Airport(Chinese:Thành đô phượng hoàng sơn cơ tràng) is a military air base inChengdu,Sichuanprovince,China.DuringWorld War IIit was aUnited States Army Air Forcesairfield.[citation needed]It is located approximately 10 miles south of Chengdu.

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Fenghuangshan Airport, also known asChungsing Chang,FenghwangshanandMakiashipenwas built under the directives of Sichuan warlordLiu Xiangin 1931 for his fledgling air force operations, and was integrated into the centralized operations of theChinese Nationalist Air Forceas theWar of Resistance-World War IIwas starting with the invasion and occupation by theEmpire of Japan;Fenghuangshan served as an operations base for Chinese fighter squadrons during theterror bombings of Chengdu and Chongqing,and was regularly under bombing attack by Japanese. Fenghuangshan was also the base where CaptainXu Huanshengand hisB-10bomber crews initially trained for the planned transoceanic strategic bombing mission against the Empire of Japan in 1938.[1][2]Years later, after the United States became involved in World War II, it was a major command and control base forTenth Air Force,being the home of the312th Fighter Wingfrom July 1944 until August 1945. The wing commanded three fighter groups (33rd, 81st and 311th) in central China as well as provided support toTwentieth Air ForceB-29 Superfortressgroups which staged strategic bombardment missions overJapanthough bases in the Chengdu area from their home bases inIndia(see:Operation Matterhorn).

Also, the426th Night Fighter SquadronoperatedP-61 Black Widownight interceptor aircraft from the airfield, providing a night defense against Japanese fighter and bomber raids at night in the area, along with the B-29 bases before their move to theMarianas.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shekand his sonChiang Ching-kuoleft their Sichuan residence on 10 December 1949 and boarded his airplane namedMay-lingand flew out from Fenghuangshan for Taiwan via Guangdong, never to return to the mainland.[3]

During the2013 Lushan earthquakein Sichuan, the airport was used as a major air hub for the relief effort and medical evacuation.[4]

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Public DomainThis article incorporatespublic domain materialfrom theAir Force Historical Research Agency

  1. ^Chai, George."Thành đô không chiến".www.flyingtiger-cacw.com.Archivedfrom the original on 2020-10-11.Retrieved2020-11-16.From early-mid 1939 to late-1941, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Air Forces conducted massive terror-bombing campaigns, and tested many new military technologies, the including the A6M "Reisen" (Type Zero) fighter over the skies of Chengdu and Chongqing... all those units departing China for the Pacific War in late 1941.
  2. ^Chai, George."Đệ bát đại đội đại đội trường từ hoán thăng".www.flyingtiger-cacw.com.Archivedfrom the original on 2016-04-28.Retrieved2020-11-16.Xu Huansheng of the Special Bombing Squadron conducted in-depth and detailed inspections of various bombers of the Chinese Air Force at that time, and finally selected Martin-139WC (B-10) bombers, and began combat training at the Phoenix Mountain (Fenghuangshan) Base in Chengdu; exploring and adapting the performance of the Martin aircraft for the transoceanic...
  3. ^"Tưởng giới thạch đào vãng đài loan thời ngã quân vi hà vị đả kỳ tọa cơ?_ vệ thị _ phượng hoàng võng".phtv.ifeng.com.Archivedfrom the original on 2009-01-19.Retrieved2020-11-16.Giải phóng quân 15 binh đoàn tiếp quản liễu quảng châu phi cơ tràng, đãn phi cơ tràng nhưng lưu hữu quốc dân đảng nhân viên. Tưởng giới thạch tòng thành đô phượng hoàng sơn cơ tràng khởi phi tiền, thành đô cơ tràng nhân viên dữ quảng châu cơ tràng liên hệ, liễu giải quảng châu phương hướng đích thiên khí tình huống. Do vu tha môn quá khứ tại nhất cá hệ thống, đô phi thường thục tất, quảng châu đích cơ tràng vấn: "Thị thùy đích phi cơ nha?" Thành đô phương diện thuyết: "Thị tưởng giới thạch đích, hạ ngọ 2 thời tòng thành đô khởi phi, đại ước 3 thời tả hữu đáo quảng châu thượng không, trực tiếp phi vãng đài loan."
  4. ^"Ký giả trực kích thành đô phượng hoàng sơn cơ tràng thủ phê chuyển vận lô sơn địa chấn chấn trung thương viên".People's Daily.2013-04-21.Retrieved2014-02-12.

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