Chapter 235: Donating P36 Fighter Jets
Jianqiao Airport, in later generations the German Army dispatched 6 Typhoon fighter jets, 4 A400M tactical transport aircraft, and three Airbus A330 MRTT aerial refueling aircraft, for flight training at some place’s news hotspot, of course these do not exist now,
In the school motto of the National Revolutionary Army Air Force school, there is a sentence that says: “Our bodies, airplanes, and bombs should perish together with the enemy.”
Captain Gao of the Air Force Fourth Pursuit Squadron is training together with the pilots under his command and from the other flight teams in Air Force flight training. At this time, the August 14 Jianqiao air combat has not yet erupted, but it is coming soon,
After Beiping fell, on August 14, 1937, the day after the August 13 Incident, 18 Type 96 Land-based Attack Aircraft from the Rokka Air Corps would take off from the airport on the other side of Taiwan, and under the command of Squad Leader Major Shinci Nitta, cross the sea to bomb Jianqiao Airport,
The Japanese Army’s Type 96 Land Attack fighter jet, called by the Japanese Army the latest all-metal single-wing twin-engine aircraft, with a range of up to four thousand kilometers, “south can bomb Singapore, north can threaten Vladivostok,” claimed by the Japanese Army to be the empire’s finest industrial product.
The Fourth Squadron’s yellow “Hawk 3” pursuit aircraft group,
constantly conducting flight training over the airport,
The 4th Pursuit Squadron is the mainstay of the National Revolutionary Army Air Force. The Fourth Pursuit Squadron commanded by Captain Gao has under it the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd flight companies.
While the Second and Ninth Air Force Brigades are undergoing military training at Cao’e Airport.
Captain Gao serves as the deputy chief captain of the Training Corps of the Air Force flight troops, assisting Chief Captain Mao Yingchu in his work.
He demands strict military training and meticulous command, so many participating pilots have gained tremendous improvements in their flight, air combat, and bombing skills.
Company Commander Li Guidan of the 21st Company, pilot Chen Huaimin, Company Commander Mao Yingchu of the 23rd Company, Squad Leader Zheng Shaoyu of the 22nd Company’s third squad, Squad Leader Le Yiqin of the 22nd Company’s second squad, Company Commander Huang Guanghan of the 22nd Company, Gong Yedi of the 21st Company’s third squad, Company Commander Li Guidan of the 21st Company, and a large number of well-known flight company commanders and pilots are also diligently conducting flight training,
And after the training,
Company Commander Captain Li of the 21st Company also walks up to him for a casual chat.
“Have you seen the front-page headline newspaper about the fall over in Beiping?”
“I heard those damned Japanese invaders are now in the fallen Beiping City, everywhere engaging in arson, killing, looting, and plundering!”
“These damned Japanese invaders, I really want to fly over there with airplanes and bomb them all to death!”
“Unfortunately! Our place here is too far from Beiping City, and over there there’s no transit airport for our airplanes to fly to for operations and refueling!”
“And right now, even the slightly more advanced airplanes in BJ, we only have a small number of Hawk 3 fighter jets!”
“The other fighter jets are completely subpar!”
“I don’t know what it would be like for us to fight against the Japanese Army’s superior performance fighter jets!”
After Company Commander Captain Li of the 21st Company comes to Captain Gao’s side,
he speaks bluntly.
Because at this moment, the 4th Battalion is not like later when it was expanded into the Fourth Regiment, successively equipped with P-47, P-51, AT-6, T-33, F-84G, F-100A/F, F-5E/F and other models, and in 1997 became the first regiment to equip F-16A/B.
Now most of the airplanes are outdated models scammed by foreigners, the most advanced being only the US-imported Hawk 3 fighter jets, and the procurement quantity is not very large either.
So after training ends, Company Commander Captain Li of the 21st Company also sighs involuntarily.
“I’ve seen it! These damned Japanese Army, one day we will surely give them a severe blow!”
“So no matter whether we are using old-style airplanes or new-style airplanes now, we must conduct flight training well. As long as the Japanese aircraft come to attack Shanghai, or the capital, and nearby areas’ cities, we can take off at any time for attack operations, severely damaging these damned Japanese aircraft groups!”
“Avenge the military and civilians in the fallen Beiping City who were brutalized by the Japanese Army!”
Captain Gao also nods, indicating that he has already seen the foreigners’ newspapers and domestic newspapers, and learned the news that Beiping City not only fell under the edge of the Japanese Army, but also suffered the Japanese Army’s harm to innocent citizens.
So he says indignantly.
“Yes! Definitely!”
Company Commander Captain Li of the 21st Company also expresses firmly that it will definitely happen, responding affirmatively,
At this moment,
Commander Zhou of the National Revolutionary Army Air Force receives a matter he did not expect,
That is, in the time period just before the Jianqiao Airport air combat erupts, he unexpectedly receives a phone call donating a batch of new-style airplanes to them.
And this phone call is personally made by Zhou Wenhua,
He plans to donate to the National Revolutionary Army Air Force a batch of fighter jets more advanced than the Hawk-3 fighter jet, namely the P-36 fighter jet, also called the Hawk 75 fighter jet. This fighter jet is the prototype aircraft for the design foundation of the P-40 fighter jet.
So upon hearing that Zhou Wenhua is donating 20 of these new-style fighter jets at once, he immediately lights up with excitement, full of gratitude.
Although the quantity is not large,
but with 20 P-36 fighter jets more advanced than the Hawk-3 fighter jet, in combat against the Japanese Army’s excellent fighter jets, it will provide even greater help.
So if Commander Zhou is not overjoyed and grateful, that would be strange.
