Location of "Airplane Ridge" in Tupi Village, Wenliang Village Committee, Chadong Town
In Tupi Village, Wenliang Village Committee, Chadong Town, Lingui District, Guilin, there is a steep mountain called "Airplane Ridge" by local villagers. According to local villagers, it was named because 78 years ago, a U.S. Flying Tigers fighter plane crashed in this Sancha Mountain Col during an air battle. Was there really a Flying Tigers plane that crashed here during World War II? Is there any flight in the area? Tigers Fighter Relics? On September 1, staff from Cultural Relics Management Office of Lingui District Culture, Radio, Television, Sports and Tourism Bureau, China News Service, Guangxi News Network, Lingui District Rong Media Center reporters and others went to the tea cave The Tupi Village of Wenliang Village Committee of the township conducted a field investigation, hoping to restore the truth of the incident.
Witness: The plane carrying two fireballs crashed into the mountain ridge from west to east
The dirt under the plane ridge Villager Yang Laoman was born in 1940. According to his memory, one day in the early winter of 1944, at nightfall, he was playing in front of the door when he suddenly heard the roar of the sky. An airplane carrying two fireballs headed west. Dongjing rammed into a mountain col about 400 meters away from his home, and immediately caused an explosion after landing. Smoke billowed and a fire started. According to him, he later heard from the adults that the explosion and bullets sounded after the plane crashed. It took more than 2 hours to end. The col burned all night, and the crowd went up the mountain to check it out the next day.
Villager Yang Laoman told us about the plane crash scene
Villager: 1983 The propeller of the plane was moved back from "Airplane Ridge" in 1983
In front of the house of Yan Zuren, a villager in Tupi Village, we saw the remains of the propeller of the crashed plane. This is a rusty but still rotatable propeller engine shaft. Yan Zuren and 6 villagers were transported from the Airplane Ridge. He had just returned from the army at that time. He felt that this propeller was of historical significance and should be transported and protected.
Villager Yan Zuren showed that the propeller of the aircraft can still be rotated
The old man Yan Zuren, a villager from Tupi Village, born in 1940, is a veteran who has been in the party for more than 50 years.In 1944, he was over 3 years old. He has no memory of the incident at that time, but he learned something about the crash through his father, grandfather, and seniors in the village. He told us that the aircraft should have been bombed during battle or the aircraft itself had malfunctioned before it crashed, causing one death and one injury to the pilot. The pilot who died with the plane was bombed to no bones. The surviving pilot parachuted to save himself before the plane crashed. After self-rescue, he went down the mountain road to the oil mill in the village. The villagers provided him with food. Second Tian took him to the crash site to check the situation. The pilot saw the scattered bodies of his comrades weeping for a long time. After going down the mountain, the village committee sent the pilot to return to the Ertang Flying Tigers base from Chadong on the one hand. Send personnel to protect the crash site.
Next, the Lingui District Cultural Relics Bureau will invite experts to Tupi Village to further research and excavate the site of the plane crash, and to corroborate and classify the cultural relics obtained from a professional perspective. District Cultural Relics Management Office Will be responsible for the sorting, protection and display of the cultural relics of this incident.
Information source: Lingui Cultural Tourism
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