Basic information about Gao Liliang

As the eldest daughter of Gao Zhihang, the "Fighting Spirit of the Air Force", Gao Liliang has always had a deep hatred for the Japanese invaders. When he was 16 years old, he heard that the Northeastern Democratic Alliance Army was coming to fight the Japanese invaders, so he joined without saying a word, and later joined the People's Liberation Army. He participated in the Liaoshen Campaign and the Pingjin Campaign, and then came to Yunnan with the army, where he worked as a reporter for "Yunnan Daily" for the rest of his life. In 1983, she became a member of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and served for 20 consecutive years. In 1987, she began to serve as the vice president of the Yunnan Provincial Aviation Federation and is still the honorary president. Currently, Gao Liliang is also a member of the China Board of Directors of the China-US Aviation Historical Heritage Foundation. Vice President of the Flying Tigers Research Association. She said: "This is also to continue my father's unfinished aviation career."

The only photo of Gao Liliang and his mother

"I learned that my father was buried in Yichang, and Japanese planes came to bomb "Seven days later"

Gao Liliang heard the news of his father's death on the radio at the end of 1937, one month after Gao Zhihang's death.

"At that time, when I listened to the radio and found out that my father was dead, the whole family cried. I was 8 years old and sensible at that time. I held on to the radio - why did you say that my father was dead! That's right Crying."

"On November 21, 1937, after my father died in Zhoukou, Henan, his body was wrapped in gauze and transported to Chongqing. When a grand memorial service was held in Hankou, I heard from the elders that Zhou Enlai had attended it. , and said: Gao Zhihang is a hero of the Chinese nation, who sacrificed his life for the anti-Japanese war and the nation."

My uncle Gao Mingkui once told Gao Liliang in detail how his father Gao Zhihang was buried in Yichang.

"At that time, the enemy planes were bombing hard, and the Yichang dock was in great chaos. Even the troops could not be transported, so my father was buried in Yichang. At that time, the body was put into a black wood coffin. My uncle said that Yichang provided The coffin is good, and the paint is so bright that the silhouette of the person can be seen."

"The students in Yichang all wore white flowers and held up slogans that read, "A man who dies before his ambitions are fulfilled will make a hero burst into tears" as a gift for my father. The last journey."

"The Japanese army hated my father. After learning that my father was buried in Yichang, Japanese planes bombed him for seven days, and the government agencies in Yichang at that time had to go to Sanyoudong."

In the early 1980s, Gao Liliang and his little sister made a special trip to Yiyi to look for their father's tomb. "I was impatient, and the search was not going well for a while, and I was so anxious that I had a nosebleed. Now, my father is there in Chongqing and Nanjing." There is a bronze statue of my father in Tonghua and Nanjing. However, no matter what, Yichang is the place where my father is buried. If a monument can be built and the tomb is built, I will definitely come even though I am in poor health. "

“When the plane flew over our house, my mother would shake her clothes hard.”

The father in the eyes of Korea’s conscience was a “romantic, handsome, and patriotic air force man”; Her mother is Gloria, a Belarusian who lives in exile in China. "My mother is very beautiful. You can see from the photos that my father and mother were really romantic at the time."

"My father's original name was Gao Mingjiu. He went to a missionary school since he was a child and spoke fluent French. Zhang Xueliang was planning to found the Air Force. Because my father was short and under 18 years old, his application was rejected. He wrote a petition letter in French. Zhang Xueliang invited the best French teacher in Shenyang to read the letter. The teacher said: This is a letter written by my best student. Zhang Xueliang immediately approved his father's study in the Air Force. "My grandma said that my father loved dancing very much. When he came back from France, he brought back a set of foreign gadgets."

"Once, my father went on a mission to the border. When he was buying something in the store, he could only speak French. After talking for a long time, the clerk didn't understand. My mother was a Belarusian noble. She could speak English, French, and Russian languages, so she came up to help her. Dad came to the rescue."

"The two got married privately in Manzhouli. Dad took my mother home, but my grandfather and grandma didn't let them in, and my father and mother kept kneeling at the door. My father begged my grandfather and told me that my mother was already pregnant with a child, so my grandfather said, ‘Get up, you don’t need to kneel down.’ The child you are carrying is me.”

“My mother married into our Gao family. She is busy all day long and does all the housework.

My father's plane sometimes flew over the house on purpose, and my mother always rushed to the yard and shook the clothes that had just been hung. "

After the "September 18th" Incident, more than 300 aircraft in the Northeast fell into the enemy's hands without a fight. In order to fight against the Japanese army in the blue sky again, Gao Zhihang separated from his wife and children, abandoned everything, and escaped by hiding in the train toilet. Go to Guannai.

"My mother sent me back to my hometown in Tonghua in order to find my father. Grandma told me that my mother was supporting me and kneeling on one leg in front of Gao’s house. She was imitating the Chinese way of supporting an orphan. I still remember that my mother’s tears kept falling on my face, waking me up from a deep sleep. Later, my mother kissed me again and again, left a large basket of dolls and toys, and took a rickshaw away. My mother’s kiss is still imprinted in my heart. This was the last time I saw my mother. "

In 1932, Gao Zhihang arrived in Nanjing and wanted to join the then Chinese Air Force. However, there were regulations at the time that "no air force officer can marry a foreign woman."

"Dad and mother are free I am in love and have deep feelings. I cried in my arms after hearing the news. It was my mother who finally said, ‘Flying is your life, your country is like this now, I quit. ’ But my father couldn’t bear it, so he found a way to rent a private house in the suburbs and still secretly stayed together. As a result, the secret agents found out later, so they deported my mother without telling my father. "

"Although my father remarried, he was always looking for my mother during his lifetime, and our Gao family was also looking for her. In the 1980s, I wrote to Moscow to find her, but to no avail. She loved to wear Chinese black robes and never wore high heels when she was with her father. ”

“Last September, I went to the Consul General of the Russian Consulate in Shanghai, and he replied that it had been too long and my mother could not be found. ”

“Dad fought against foreign aggression and was a representative of the heroic group”

Gao Zhihang entered Hangzhou Jianqiao Aviation School as a teacher and became famous in the Kuomintang Air Force. At one time, the British, Germans, Italians, etc. The state-sponsored pilots performed in Nanjing, but the Chinese pilots who participated in the performance were not as good as them. Gao Zhihang, who was not among the performers, took the initiative to fly to the sky after watching his stunts. His flying stunts immediately dwarfed those of the previous performances, and Chiang Kai-shek immediately flew his own plane. The "Skylight" award was given to him.

"To this day, when my father's students mentioned him, they all respect him very much. They all call me 'little junior sister'. ”

On August 14, 1937, the second day of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, the weak Chinese Air Force risked their lives and staged a rare “air combat” over Hangzhou Bay. Three days** * Shot down 45 Japanese aircraft.

The person who led the Chinese Air Force in the main battle and shot down the first Japanese aircraft was Gao Zhihang, the 13th captain of the 4th Aviation Destroyer Group of the Chinese Air Force. The captain and many pilots died heroically for their country.

During the Anti-Japanese War, 202 Chinese pilots died in the battle to defend the country.

"Dad fought. Foreign aggression represents a group of heroes, who all show their indomitable national soul. ”

When Gao Liliang was 16 years old, she joined the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army and then entered the Northeast Military and Political University to study. When she filled out the file, she formally filled in her father’s name for the first time. The principal at the time, He Changgong, came in person after hearing the news Visiting, "He said that when he was in France, he knew my father and asked me to do a good job and learn to be patriotic like my father. ”

“Zhang Gensheng, the head of the propaganda section of the university at that time, also came to tell me that during the Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai, young students sang anti-Japanese songs in tears at rallies, and their father strode onto the stage wearing Air Force leather boots. He slammed the table and said: We can't cry, tears can't drive the Japanese out! Pick up the gun! The students were enthusiastic and immediately joined the army to serve the country. Some went to Yan'an and some to Nanjing. ”

In his later years, Gao Liliang was still busy, assisting the government in establishing the Hump Flight Memorial in Kunming to commemorate the 1,200 Chinese and American air force martyrs who sacrificed their lives on the Hump Flight; later, on behalf of the Yunnan Air Force community, he attended In 2002, the Chinese government held the "Memorial of History" large-scale exhibition in the United States, and formed a profound friendship with General Chennault's wife, Ms. Chen Xiangmei.