Zhijiang flying tigers memorial hall

Flying Tigers Memorial Hall is located on the east side of Zhijiang Airport in Zhijiang County, 2 kilometers away from Zhijiang County. It is the only special memorial hall in China that comprehensively reflects Chennault's and Flying Tigers' assistance to China in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Now it covers a total area of 5 1. 19 mu, which is mainly composed of the former site of the Chinese and American Air Force Command Tower, the former site of the Chinese and American Air Force United Club and the Flying Tigers Memorial Hall during the Anti-Japanese War. Among them, the Flying Tigers Memorial Hall was built in 2005, covering an area of 1.460 square meters, and the shape is a double-plane circular building. It consists of three buildings: the Flying Tigers Memorial Hall, the former site of the Air Force Combat Command Tower and the former site of the China-US Air Force United Club.

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The memorial hall of Flying Tigers covers an area of 1.500 square meters, and its shape is a double-plane circular building. The museum is divided into exhibition areas such as Chennault's first visit to Zhijiang, the American Volunteer Air Force, the U.S. Army's 10th Air Force Task Force in China, the U.S. Army's 14th Air Force, Life and Death and * * * Fight against the Japanese aggressors, Peace and Friendship Tomorrow, and the China Flying Tigers team showroom. There are a large number of combat and daily necessities used by the Flying Tigers in the exhibition area, and the exhibition mode in the museum is advanced.

Flying Tigers Memorial Hall

Five sculptures, the Light of Peace, the Sword of Justice, the Flower of Friendship, the Statue of General Flying Tiger and the Emblem of Flying Tigers, are mainly arranged around the original Chinese and American Air Force Command Tower. In addition, there are air force monuments in China, the United States and the Soviet Union. The museum shows the stones used in the construction of Zhijiang Airport during World War II, the fighters used by the Flying Tigers and the enlisted members of the Flying Tigers.

Air force combat command tower former site

Former site of Air Force Combat Command Tower: three-story small brick building with T-shaped structure, built in 1938+ 10. It was the radio command center, launch center, confidential room, information room, war room and command room of Zhijiang Airport during World War II. General Chennault and China River Air Force Commander Zhang and other air force commanders have commanded thousands of battles here.

Flying Tigers Memorial Hall Chennault Statue

Former site of China-US Air Force Club: It was built in1April, 1944, covering an area of 450 square meters, with plastered walls such as brick and wood structure, concrete floor and peak nest, with three-dimensional and beautiful shapes. There is a ballroom in the middle of the club and a leisure bar at both ends. There is a bluestone cornerstone embedded in the lower right of the southwest entrance of the house, engraved with Chinese and English inscriptions such as "China-US Air Force Joint Club", "April 33 of the Republic of China" and "Gao, the stationmaster of the ninth air force terminal". It is a national first-class cultural relic.