From Nanjing to Tokyo

George not only has transport planes, but also fighter planes.

Hundreds of German and Italian fighter planes, including the BF109 fighter plane.

They are the spoils of war of the Allied forces in the North African battlefield. Due to insufficient spare parts and other reasons, those planes were not shipped back to the country, but parked at the airport in North Africa. They should have become a pile of scrap metal in the wind and sun.

But at George's request, all the planes were repaired.

Now hundreds of repaired planes are parked at the airport in Tunisia.

What George lacks is pilots, so he specially trained pilots in Tunisia.

After all, Borneo will need an air force in the future.

Now, facing the first Chinese woman who obtained a pilot's license, George sincerely admired her, not for anything else, but because of her love for the motherland - after the outbreak of the "September 18th" Incident, overseas Chinese were indignant and held protests and demonstrations across the United States, launched donations, supported the motherland's anti-Japanese war, and set up aviation schools in San Francisco, Portland, New York, Los Angeles and other places to encourage young people to learn to fly so that they can return to China to participate in the anti-Japanese war after graduation.

Li Yueying was the first batch of students at the Portland Aviation School. Among the 32 students, she was the only woman. After graduating with a pilot's license in 1934, she returned to China, but because the Air Force did not recruit female pilots, she returned disappointed. But this did not prevent her from doing her best in this war in another way.

"... just fly the plane to Montana."

Because she had lived in China for two years, Li Yueying spoke Mandarin fluently.

"P39, P40, P63, C47, B25, we flew almost all the planes. I flew 1,000 planes, and the flying hours are almost 7,000 hours. You know, I like flying very much. When we transport planes, we also engage in aerial dogfights every day. We even defeated the pilots of the fighter squadron many times..."

After that, Li Yueying said helplessly.

"But we will never have the opportunity to go to the battlefield. It seems that women cannot go to the battlefield."

After thinking for a while, she said again.

"That's not right. Russian female pilots can go to the battlefield."

Looking at the lady in front of him who was upset because she couldn't go to the battlefield, George said.

"You can come to us. I have my own aviation team and fighter planes. Although the plane is a German BF109, its performance is also excellent. Although I cannot guarantee that you will have the opportunity to go to the battlefield to fight the Japanese, Ms. Li, I hope you can accept my invitation as the first Chinese female fighter pilot!"

Faced with the sudden invitation, Li Yueying thought for a while and then said.

"Mr. George, in fact, there is another overseas Chinese pilot in the service team. She is also a lady. If possible, I think she will definitely be willing to go. Her flying skills are also very good."

And this good thing!

Of course, George would not refuse such a good thing. After all, what he lacks most now is such talents.

Sometimes, unexpected encounters always change the fate of many people. One month after George issued the invitation, pilots Li Yueying and Zhu Meijiao joined North Borneo Airlines and became the first batch of fighter pilots, thus avoiding the air accident.

A few hours later, George took a DC4 to Amchitka Island again. The plane flew for almost ten hours before landing on Amchitka Island. Both sides of the runway were full of B29 Super Fortresses. In addition to B29, there were also a large number of B24.

"Those are C109 fuel transport planes. There are 8 oil tankers installed in the cabin, which can carry up to 2,900 gallons of aviation gasoline at a time. In the past, we used it to transport gasoline to China via the Hump Route."

Major Cage explained,

"But now, these C109s are aerial refueling aircraft, and one refueling aircraft refuels one Super Fortress..."

Although it was already past eight o'clock in the evening, the airport was still brightly lit. The refueling trucks surrounding the B29 were loading fuel into the aircraft, and truckloads of bombs were being hoisted into the bomb bay.

Coming to a B29 by car, looking at the 500-pound bomb in front of him, George picked up a brush and wrote a few words on the bomb with paint.

"For Nanjing!"

The reason why I came here is to write this sentence. Maybe George can't fly the B29 bomber himself and drop the bomb on Tokyo, but it doesn't prevent him from coming to this airport with a certain wish and leaving a sentence on the bomb. This is the simplest wish of a Chinese.

From Nanjing to Tokyo.

It's not far.

But for this short distance, we walked for eight years and paid the price of tens of millions of military and civilian casualties.

For this short distance, we sacrificed, we fought, we were betrayed, we endured humiliation...

For this short distance...

We spared no effort.

Even the entire nation was staked on this unknown journey. It was on this journey full of sacrifice and blood and tears that we completed the sharp change in the national soul.

No matter what, we reached the other side.

From Nanjing to Tokyo...

Now, George is just adding bricks and tiles to this process, and these bricks and tiles are just the beginning. In the future, it will add fuel to the fire.

A few hours later, when the huge fleet roared to take off, watching the B29 bombers fly into the night sky one after another, watching the night sky full of red and green wing lights flashing, at this moment, George seemed to understand why hundreds of thousands of people could provide their own rations to build a large airport, and why the Chinese people still gritted their teeth and even built the airport at the cost of currency collapse when the Americans defaulted on advance payments for various reasons.

It was not for anything else, but for the deepest desire in their hearts - bombing Tokyo!

For the compatriots who died in Nanjing, and for the revenge of millions of compatriots who died in the War of Resistance!

"Today, our wish has come true six months earlier!"

George's mouth corners raised, and the brightest smile bloomed on his face at this time. The people around him were probably the same, even the photographer was the same. Even when he left a message on the bomb before, the film photographer also took that scene.

Soon, the film will be developed, and the copy will be released as a news film of "Bombing Tokyo". At that time, the whole world will see the scene of bombing Tokyo.

As George was watching the bombers flying away in the sky, a man walked up to him and said, "Mr. George, thank you for your company's aerial refueling technology, which enabled us to bomb Tokyo in advance. Hello, I am Curtis LeMay."