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Chapter 288 Aviation Volunteer Team

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Although Zhu Wan and Qin Ling did not go to the battlefield, they saw countless wounded people in the hospital every day, and they could imagine the tragic battle on the front line!

Moreover, this is not a field hospital. In addition to the people injured by bombing, the soldiers transported from the front line have undergone preliminary treatment, so the survival rate is relatively high. Many people are injured on the front line and cannot be treated at all!

Because Zhu Wan is older, the number of times she goes to the operating table is reduced, but she has to undergo five or six operations in a month. She is a Catholic. Every time she stands on the operating table, she has to pray first: "My kind Father, please save these children..."

Doctors are not omnipotent, and often, they are powerless to face the injured.

Qin Ling goes to the operating table more times, and she can stay in the operating room for more than ten days a month.

As honorary presidents of Ci'an Hospital, they are also famous public figures in the country, Nobel Prize winner, honorary president of the National Institute of Research, and deputy minister of the Ministry of Health, they personally performed surgery on the injured, making all doctors, nurses and patients' families respected them.

Their photos have been published in newspapers more than once, winning widespread praise.

Qin Hancheng was not idle either. Because a large number of people moved to Sichuan, the Qin family grain store played a key role, at least stabilizing the grain prices so that the military and civilians would not starve to death.

After a while, Qin Di asked Zhang Naijing: "How do you feel when you go to the United States?"

Zhang Naijing coughed dryly and replied: "I feel a lot. The United States is worthy of being an industrial power and has crawled out of the economic crisis."

Qin Di snorted: "What's this? More than ten years have passed, and it's long time since we got out of the crisis!"

Zhang Naijing said: "I have contacted many people in the United States and read many newspapers. I found that the United States' attitude towards Japan is changing."

Qin Hancheng was more concerned about international affairs, and he became interested when he heard this and said, "Then tell me carefully, what changes have happened?"

Zhang Naijing sorted out his thoughts and said, "Three or four years ago, when the July 7 Incident broke out, the United States had an indifferent attitude towards the war between China and Japan, believing that the United States should not interfere in Asian affairs.

At that time, a survey conducted by the Philadelphia Question Express showed that members of the Senate and House of Representatives opposed the United States' interference in Asian affairs at a ratio of 2:1.

However, the situation gradually changed later.

President Roosevelt approved the "Tung Oil Loan Plan" at the end of 1938 and loaned US$25 million to China in the name of commercial loans. Although the amount is limited, it is beneficial to us.

In the spring of 1939, after the Japanese army captured Hainan and the Xisha Islands, President Roosevelt announced an embargo on aircraft and parts on Japan, and at the same time mobilized warships from the Atlantic coast to deploy them to the Pacific coast. Subsequently, he announced an embargo on Japan, including aluminum, molybdenum, nickel, tungsten and other important strategic materials.

In September 1940, Germany, Italy and Japan concluded a military alliance. In October, the United States imposed a scrap iron embargo on Japan. Some even suggested that the next ban on oil should be banned and Japan's assets in the United States should be frozen. The latter two are amazing, and may take the lives of the Japanese..."

Qin Zhan had a lot of information in the Secret Telegram, but she couldn't say it out.

Qin Di would not speak at this time.

In fact, the United States and Japan are still mediating. Japan sent its ambassador to the United States Yoshisaburo Nomura to negotiate with US Secretary of State Hull, and sent a special representative to Sakuraburo to Washington for negotiations. Once, the United States' determination to blockade against Japan was shaken under Japan's negotiations. US Secretary of State Hull met with ambassadors of China, Britain, the Netherlands and Australia, and announced the United States' compromise with Japan.

Later, British Prime Minister Churchill called Roosevelt in the middle of the morning, claiming that if the Chinese battlefield collapsed, the European battlefield would also be in danger.

After changing mediation, Hull summoned the Japanese ambassador to the United States and announced that he could resume trade with Japan and give each other the most-favored-nation treatment, but the condition was that Japan would stop aggression against China, Vietnam and other places. However, this was something that Japan could not do.

The economic and trade ties between the United States and Japan are very close. Most of Japan's strategic resources rely on the United States for providing, among which 90% of scrap steel and copper, 45% of lead, 65% of oil and petroleum products, and 70% of aircraft and tank manufacturing machine tools all rely on the U.S.-Japan trade. Once the United States completely blocks Japan, Japan's economy will be in trouble! At the end of his way, he can only fight hard and attack Pearl Harbor.

Although Qin Di knew what would happen next, he could not say it.

Because of World War II, the anti-*** alliance needs to work together to achieve the final victory.

If the United States does not force Japan into a hurry, how could Japan attack Pearl Harbor? If Japan does not attack Pearl Harbor, how could the United States participate in the war? If the United States does not participate in the war, then it would be too difficult to fight alone by China!

Let’s mention the American Flying Tigers and the Soviet Air Volunteer Team.

On April 15, 1941, China and the United States reached a secret agreement, and Roosevelt signed an executive order allowing American reserve soldiers and Army Air Forces, as well as "retired personnel" of the Navy and Marine Corps to go to China to participate in combat, and agreed that China would use the US Lease Act payment to China to purchase American fighter jets.

On August 1, 1941, the U.S. Volunteer Air Force was established and headquartered in Kunming. Chennard was the commander of the U.S. Volunteer Air Force. Chennard recruited about 100 pilots in the United States, of which 40 were from the Army Air Force and 60 from the Navy and Marine Corps. Most of them were reserve officers, and a few were pilots who were voluntarily retired from the Air Force and transferred to AVG service under the instruction of the U.S. government. About 200 ground crew members were also recruited. The pilots earned $600 a month (in 1942, the U.S. Army Air Force pilots earned $347 a month), the squadron captain earned $650 a month, and the squadron captain earned $700 a month. In addition, there is a bonus of $500 per Japanese aircraft shot down.

This is the famous American Flying Tigers, which is known to almost everyone in later generations.

However, the Soviet Air Force Volunteer Team, which truly made great contributions, was forgotten by people with choice.

Since 1937, volunteers from the Soviet Air Force have come to China one after another. During the four years in China, the Soviet Union has provided a total of 1,235 aircraft of various types and 2.15 million aircraft bombs; a total of 3,665 people have participated in the Soviet Air Volunteer Team, including 1,091 active Soviet volunteer pilots and more than 2,000 ground mechanical personnel; more than 80% of the pilots are the essence of the Soviet Air Force that participated in the Spanish Civil War.

It is said that it is a Soviet volunteer team, but it is actually almost reorganized. It contains 14 Soviet heroes, 5 lieutenant generals, 2 generals, 2 deputy commanders, and 1 Soviet Air Force commander...
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