Tsuyung Airfield

Tsuyung Airfield
Tsuyung Airfield
Part ofFourteenth Air Force
Yunnan Province,China
	Tsuyung Airfield
Coordinates	25°02′20″N101°32′45″E/ 25.038910°N 101.545917°E
Type	Military airfield
Site information
Controlled by	United States Army Air Forces
Site history
Battles/wars	China Defensive Campaign 1942-1945

Tsuyung Airfield( sở hùng cơ tràng ) is a formerWorld War II United States Army Air Forcesairfield from 1941 to 1945 inChuxiong County,Yunnan Province, China. As the town urbanized, it found itself right at the town center and got demolished. Its current site became the Chuxiong Post Bureau's main building, at the junction of Lucheng East Road and Lucheng North Road. No remnants of its wartime past could be found there. There was a separateOld Tsuyung Airfieldbuilt in 1928, which was replaced by the new Tsuyung Airfield which started construction in October 1938 to deal with the increasing demand of "the Hump".^[1]^[2]

History[edit]

The airfield was a major transport hub on the China end of "the Hump"air transport route over theHimalayan Mountains,from theAssam ValleyinIndia.The base was host to bothAir Transport Commandunits, thenFourteenth Air ForceTroop Carrier squadrons which moved the equipment and supplies toforward airfieldsin China.

References[edit]

This article incorporatespublic domain materialfrom theAir Force Historical Research Agency

Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983.ISBN 0-89201-092-4
Airfields & Seaplane Anchorages China
USAFHRA Document search - Tsuyung

External links[edit]

[1] Cao đại chính (2016-01-27)."Vân nam sở hùng 5 niên lực tranh kiến 6 tọa cơ tràng dẫn quan chú cụ thể quy hoa địa hoàn tại tuyển chỉ trung".Xuân thành vãn báo.

[2] "Kháng chiến thời kỳ vân nam cơ tràng kiến thiết ( thượng ) ( tổ đồ )".Vân nam nhật báo.2014-01-12.

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