Zhijiang, a border town in western Hunan, was named after Qu Yuan's Songs of the South. 1945 On August 2 1 day, Japan sent Takeo Imai and his party to Zhijiang to hand over the map of the million troops of the Japanese invaders and sign a detailed memorandum of surrender. Since then, Zhijiang has been famous at home and abroad as "the city of victory and the city of heroes".
On September 3rd, "China People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Victory Day", we came to the memorial hall of Flying Tigers in Zhijiang Dong Autonomous County, Huaihua City, Hunan Province, and looked back on the bonfire years.
Located on the east side of Zhijiang Airport, the Flying Tigers Memorial Hall is the only special memorial hall in China that comprehensively reflects the assistance of the Flying Tigers to China and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression led by General Chennault, an American ally. Wu Shuo, director of the memorial hall of the Flying Tigers in Zhijiang, is mainly composed of the former site of the Chinese and American Air Force Command Tower, the former site of the Chinese and American Air Force United Club and the memorial hall of the Flying Tigers during the Anti-Japanese War.
In the exhibition hall of the memorial hall of the Flying Tigers, there are a large number of school supplies and original photos used by the Chinese and American Flying Tigers, which reproduce the brilliant achievements of the Flying Tigers in bravely fighting against the Japanese aggressors. More than 70 years ago, Chennault, the founder of the Flying Tigers, led18,223 US Air Force soldiers,165,438+066,5438+0 planes to help China resist Japan, and * * shot down Japanese planes.
Zhijiang Airport was built in 1936 and 10 two months ago, which left brilliant achievements in China's anti-Japanese war history and enjoyed the reputation of "the second largest airport in the Far East". Zhijiang Airport is responsible for the strategic bombing of the Japanese garrison in North China and Central China, cutting off the Japanese logistics supply lines, blocking the Yangtze River, Xiangjiang River and Beijing-Guangzhou railway transportation lines, and preventing the Japanese from attacking the southwest. Especially1from April to June, 1945, more than 400 fighters of the Chinese and American air forces gathered in Zhijiang to participate in the "Zhijiang Defence War", which was responsible for mastering the air superiority in the theater and air reinforcements in more than 200 kilometers of frontal battlefields. This battle ended with China's total victory and the Japanese army's fiasco, and became the last battle of China, the frontal battlefield of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
After leaving Zhijiang Airport, the reporter drove along National Highway 320 to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Victory Memorial Hall. The surrender memorial square in front of the museum is a four-column and three-arch building, which maintains a unique national architectural style and shows the unyielding integrity of the Chinese nation. It is 8.5m high,10.64m wide and1.65,438+0m thick. It is made of blue bricks, with cement as the bottom, embedded with Ming rocks, and engraved with inscriptions by Kuomintang military and political officials. This is the only landmark in China to commemorate War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory in surrender, and it is called the "Arc de Triomphe in China" by the world.
There are three black wooden bungalows passing through the surrender memorial hall. Turn left more than 50 meters to the north. On the left is He's office and on the right is the Chinese Army General Command. A long row of bungalows facing south in the middle is the place where the surrender ceremony is held-the surrender hall. Everything in the room is the same as it was 69 years ago.
"Why surrender in Zhijiang? There are four reasons: First, the original Yushan Airport in Jiangxi has not been repaired, while Zhijiang Airport has convenient transportation. Second, Zhijiang Airport has a strong air force, and hundreds of planes can take off at any time. Showing the strength of the air force to the Japanese army can have a certain deterrent effect on the Japanese army and strive for the initiative in surrender negotiations. Third, at that time, the Japanese army still had some strength in China, and some Japanese troops had the psychology of refusing to surrender. The surrender location is selected in Zhijiang, which can ensure security. Fourth, when the Japanese army was defeated in the battle of Xiangxi, letting the Japanese surrender during this period can make them feel the taste of the "sunset river".
The former site of China people's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victorious surrender has become a national patriotic education base and a national cultural relics protection unit. Zhijiang Airport, once the second largest airport in the Allied Far East Theater, the air command tower of the Sino-American Allied Forces, and the historical relics left by the "Zhijiang Defence War" have become an important historical witness to the victory of the world anti-fascist war. Zhijiang has been deeply left in the memory of the Chinese nation and all mankind and will never be erased.