2024年2月29日 · During World War II, the airport was known as Yunnani (Siangyun) Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces Fourteenth Air Force as part of the China …

Yunnanyi Airport, formerly known as Xiangyun Airport and during WWII as Beitun Airport, is a military airport in western Xiangyun County, Yunnan province, China. During the Second …

Following the outbreak of the Pacific War and the loss of the Burma Road, Yunnanyi became the westernmost airfield on the China side of the "Hump" route from India. This new status …

During World War II, the airport was known as Yunnani (Siangyun) Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces Fourteenth Air Force as part of the China Defensive Campaign …

Today located in the People's Republic of China. Wartime American spelling "Kunglai". Also spelled "Chunglai". Runway was 6,000' long, elevation 6,000' oriented north to south. Base …

2024年10月14日 · They flew planes over the Himalayan Mountains during WW2 and may have information regarding the direction-finding team and airfield. There was some reunion books …

The USAAF got established in Yunnanyi in in December 1942, and used the airfield as an Air Transport Command staging base. It contained large storage facilities for equipment and …

2024年3月4日 · Yunnanyi airstrips. Location per Jackson, Dan, Fallen Tigers (Lexington KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2021), p 176.)) He flew an F5E, a P-38 stripped of armament to …

WWII-era airport in Xiangyun, Yunnan, China. Abandoned in 1949.

Yunnanyi was the base of the Flying Tigers (AVG) and later on the American Fourteenth Air Force near the occupied western part of Yunnan. The base in Baoshan was near the front line and …