Tsuyung Airfield

25°02′20″N 101°32′45″E / 25.038910°N 101.545917°E / 25.038910; 101.545917TypeMilitary airfieldSite informationControlled byUnited States Army Air ForcesSite historyBattles/warsChina Defensive Campaign 1942-1945

Tsuyung Airfield (楚雄机场) is a former World War II United States Army Air Forces airfield from 1941 to 1945 in Chuxiong County, Yunnan Province, China. As the town urbanized, it found itself right at the town center and got demolished. Its current site became the Chuxiong Post Bureau's main building, at the junction of Lucheng East Road and Lucheng North Road. No remnants of its wartime past could be found there. There was a separate Old Tsuyung Airfield built in 1928, which was replaced by the new Tsuyung Airfield which started construction in October 1938 to deal with the increasing demand of "the Hump".[1][2]

History

The airfield was a major transport hub on the China end of "the Hump" air transport route over the Himalayan Mountains, from the Assam Valley in India. The base was host to both Air Transport Command units, then Fourteenth Air Force Troop Carrier squadrons which moved the equipment and supplies to forward airfields in China.

References

  1. ^ 高大正 (2016-01-27). "云南楚雄5年力争建6座机场引关注 具体规划地还在选址中". 春城晚报.
  2. ^ "抗战时期云南机场建设 （上）(组图)". 云南日报. 2014-01-12.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

  • Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. ISBN 0-89201-092-4
  • Airfields & Seaplane Anchorages China
  • USAFHRA Document search - Tsuyung

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