Pengshan Air Base
| Pengshan Air Base Pengshan, Sichuan, China | |
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  Pengshan Air Base | |
| Coordinates | 30°15′53.20″N 103°51′04.41″E / 30.2647778°N 103.8512250°E |
| Type | Military airfield |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1942 |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Pengshan Air Base is a
Beginning in 1949, it was part of the PLAAF Second Aviation School. The Second Aviation School was established on the basis of the
History
Built during World War II, the base was used by the United States Army Air Forces XX Bomber Command 468th Bombardment Group as an airfield to stage Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombing missions from India to attack Japan.[2] It was known by the Americans as Pengshan Airfield (A-7). It was one of four B-29 bases established by the Americans in China.
Staging through Pengshan from its base at
When the B-29 bombers were moved from India in February 1945 to the newly captured bases in the Mariana Islands, the B-29 use of Pengshan Airfield ended. The Americans used the airfield as a communications station before turning it over to the Chinese government on 30 June 1945.
See also
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
- ^ Defense Intelligence Agency, People's Liberation Army Air Force, DIC-1300-445-91, May 1991, Appendix, via https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1991/plaaf-appe.htm
- ^ Craven, Wesley Frank; James Lea Cate. "Vol. V: The Pacific: MATTERHORN to Nagasaki, June 1944 to August 1945". The Army Air Forces in World War II. U.S. Office of Air Force History. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/V/index.html.
- Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
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