In reading the article "Thousands of Vicissitudes of Yuxiang" written by teacher Yang Huanyu, there was this passage: Pilot Cemetery: During the Anti-Japanese War, an Allied plane crashed in the north of Yuxiang City, and the American pilot was burned to death.

In reading the article "Thousands of Vicissitudes of Yuxiang" written by teacher Yang Huanyu, there was this passage:

Pilot Cemetery: During the Anti-Japanese War , an Allied plane crashed in the north of Yuxiang City, and the American pilot was burned to death. It was buried next to the moat to the west of the north gate of Yuxiang City (in today's hardware factory). American friends came to Yuxiang to search for traces and visit the tomb to pay homage.

What happened?

then checked relevant information on the Internet and found a report written by Shanxi News Network in 2008.

American Flying Tigers pilot

After this newspaper (reporter Hu Zengchun) published "Searching for the Resting Place of Former Flying Tigers" on April 4, 2008, a Yongji reader called on the 7th and said that Dr. Lu Baike from the United States provided information. The Mats'un (Macun) mentioned in the article is actually his hometown, Macun, Qingtou Town, and the villagers have found the witness at the time - 73-year-old Cai Jingxiu.

On the afternoon of April 7, the reporter found Cai Jingxiu at the entrance of a snack shop in Macun. "Sit at home, sit at home." The old man greeted the reporter and started chatting...

　 "The plane fell and broke into several pieces"

"Tomorrow is March 3, and the day that happened was March 1945. Three. ..." After returning home, Cai Jingxiu put on her hearing aid and gradually fell into memories.

On that day, her 36-year-old cousin Lu Qingwen took Jingxiu to attend the temple fair in Tunli Village. Not far from the village, Jingxiu wanted to make it easier and told her sister-in-law to go ahead, and he arrived soon after. Just after her sister-in-law left for a while, Jingxiu heard the roar from the sky. She looked up and saw three planes flying to the southeast. One of them suddenly turned around and swooped down. Then, there was a loud noise from the south, and then A huge cloud of smoke rose into the sky. In the direction from which the crashed plane came, two more planes soon appeared in the sky. They circled the smoke twice and then turned around and flew away. "A big hole was created in the dirt road. The plane had been broken into several pieces and scattered in the wheat fields on the roadside. A foreign young man was sitting in the wreckage of the plane. He was motionless and looked dead." Cai Jingxiu explain.

That afternoon, the Japanese and puppet troops occupying Yuxiang County pulled the wreckage of the plane and the dead pilot into the county.

　 Eyewitnesses confirmed the burial site of the hero

Xie Sancun, 77, of Yuxiang, was also an eyewitness to that incident. At that time, he was selling goods at the temple fair in the village.

Elder Xie Sancun said that the pilot’s remains were buried by local people south of the train station outside the north gate of the county. In 1946, the then National Government reburied the pilot’s remains not far from the North Moat, which was built after liberation. Yuxiang Hardware Factory is now Shanxi Filter Factory. His statement was confirmed by Cai Jingxiu.

The statements of the two witnesses and the US national declassified files provided by Dr. Lu Baike can be confirmed in many places. If there are no accidents, the place where pilot Garner died and the burial place can be confirmed.

Dr. American will visit

On the afternoon of the 7th, the reporter called Dr. Lu Baike and told him what he learned. He said he was very happy to learn about the situation and had contacted Garner's relatives in the United States. He also We will rush to Yongji Yuxiang this Saturday or Sunday for further confirmation.

On the 13th, after a comparative study, Dr. Lu Baike believed that the remains of pilot Garner were probably buried in a small prefabricated factory next door to the Shanxi Filter Factory. He said that after returning to Beijing, he would inform Mr. Garner’s relatives in the United States about the search situation. “I am very close to the specific burial place of the pilot, and I believe that his remains will eventually be found.”

77 years later, I would like to say that This article commemorates the anti-Japanese heroes of that year, and hopes that the heroes’ souls will return to their homeland as soon as possible!