Chinese Expeditionary Force (Burma) - Air Forces:

Air Forces:

17th Pursuit Squadron / 5th Pursuit Group - squadron commander Liu Qingguang

  • Base: Lashio ; Burma (/42 – summer/42)
  • 11 x I-153's

American Volunteer Group - Claire Chennault

  • 1st Squadron ’Adam & Eves’ - Squadron Leader Robert Neale (07/02/42 – 04/07/42)
    • Base: Mingaladon (14/01/42 – ), Lashio (03/42 – 27/04/42)
    • Curtiss P-40's
  • 2nd Squadron ’Panda Bears’- Squadron Leader John Newkirk (18/08/41 – 24/03/42), Squadron Leader David Hill (24/03/42 – 04/07/42)
    • Base: Mingaladon (30/12/41 – 08/02/42), Loiwing (08/02/42 -), Magwe (08/02/42 – ), Kunming (08/02/42 – )
    • Curtiss P-40's
  • 3rd Squadron ’Hell’s Angels’- Squadron Leader Arvid Olson (14/08/41 – 04/07/42)
    • Base: Mingaladon (12/12/41 – 03/42), Magwe (03/42 – 22/03/42), Lashio (03/42 – 27/04/42)
    • Curtiss P-40's

Notes

  • At the end of January 1942 eleven I-153s of the 17th Pursuit Squadron led by squadron commander Liu Qingguang, were quartered at Kunming (Yunnan Province). According to intentions, they were to repulse Japanese air attacks together with the American volunteers, who also were stationed there. However after some time they were sent on to Lashio airbase in Burma where they were utilised for communications and in May flew sorties attacking ground targets.

Sources:

  • Hsu Long-hsuen and Chang Ming-kai, History of The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) 2nd Ed., 1971. Translated by Wen Ha-hsiung, Chung Wu Publishing; 33, 140th Lane, Tung-hwa Street, Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China.
  • German trained Divisions: 3rd, 6th, 9th, 14th, 36th, 87th, 88th, and the Training Division of the Central Military Academy. Also the "Tax Police" regiment (equivalent of a division) under T.V. Soong's Ministry of Finance, later converted to the New 38th division during the war. From: "History of the Frontal (i.e. KMT) War Zone in the Sino-Japanese War", published by Nanjing University Press. Posted by yexu on Apr 7 2005, 04:28 AM - http://www.china-defense.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=8871&st=0&#entry176135
  • Sino-Japanese Air War 1937-45
  • Order of Battle of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma - 1942

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