pay tribute! Two new female anti-Japanese aviation heroes confirmed
On the eve of International Museum Day on May 18, the Nanjing Anti-Japanese Aviation Martyrs Memorial Hall completed the correction and addition of information on the first batch of 18 Chinese anti-Japanese aviation martyrs.
"Chen Naian, Wenling, Zhejiang", "Fang Zhaoxiang, Lingyun, Guangxi"... On May 17, the reporter came to the Anti-Japanese Aviation Martyrs Monument and found that the information on the 18 Chinese anti-Japanese aviation martyrs had been corrected and supplemented. For example, Chen Naian's original place of birth was blank, but this time "Wenling, Zhejiang" was added; Fang Zhaoxiang's original place of birth was "Guangdong Lingyun", but this time it was changed to "Guangxi Lingyun".
The Nanjing Anti-Japanese Aviation Martyrs Memorial Hall announced the first batch of corrected information lists for the Anti-Japanese Aviation Martyrs. Two 22-year-old female anti-Japanese aviation heroes newly discovered
Among the 1,468 Chinese anti-Japanese aviation heroes,
The second and third female anti-Japanese aviation heroes discovered.
"Student Guo Cailing from Tong'an, Fujian, 1921-1943.4.20"
"Student Hou Ziqin in Tianjin 1921-1943.5.18"...
Among them, the names of the two heroes were added with "", which is very eye-catching. "Previously, we only knew the names of the martyrs and could not confirm their gender." A staff member of the Nanjing Anti-Japanese Aviation Martyrs Memorial Hall said that among the 1,468 Chinese anti-Japanese aviation martyrs on the monument, Lu Meiyin, the flight attendant hero who sacrificed herself to save others, is The only female anti-Japanese aviation hero previously discovered.
In April this year, with the joint efforts of media and cultural and historical workers in Xiamen, two more anti-Japanese aviation heroes were confirmed to be women. One of them was Guo Cailing, a returned overseas Chinese from Vietnam, and the other was Hou Ziqin, a sports student from Chongqing University.
Guo Cailing, a native of Tong'an, Fujian, was a student in a gliding training class. She died in a crash while practicing gliding on Fenghuang Mountain in Chengdu on April 20, 1943. She was only 22 years old. Xiamen cultural and historical workers found a newspaper on January 8, 1943. The article "Visiting the Gliding Class" published in it read: "The eldest daughter is Guo Cailing, a Chinese-Vietnamese mixed-race daughter. She is nostalgic for her motherland and also misses her time in Vietnam. Parents and brothers..." In addition, there is a picture from the first issue of "Gliding" magazine in 1946, which published a photo of a high-spirited young woman, with the caption "Female Instructor Guo Cailing."
The accompanying picture in the magazine "Gliding" has the caption "Female Instructor Guo Cailing".
Like Guo Cailing, female student Hou Ziqin also died in a crash while participating in gliding training. In the article "Yaoshan Performance Crash" published in "Ta Kung Pao" on March 1, 1944, it was written: "On April 20, 1943, Ms. Guo Cailing, a student of the gliding training class, and Ms. Hou Ziqin, a student of the gliding training class, both crashed in Chengdu Phoenix on May 18 of the same year. Mountain."
