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After Japan's defeat at the end of World War II in 1945, General Order No. 1 instructed Japan to surrender its troops in Taiwan to Chiang Kai-shek. On 25 October 1945, KMT general Chen Yi acted on behalf of the Allied Powers to accept Japan's surrender and proclaimed that day as Taiwan Retrocession Day .
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After Japan's defeat at the end of World War II in 1945, General Order No. 1 instructed Japan, who surrendered to the US, to surrender its troops in Taiwan to the forces of the Republic of China Kuomintang.
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During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II, the ROCAF participated in attacks on Japanese warships on the eastern front and along the Yangtze river and interdiction and close-air support during the Battle of Shanghai in 1937. Chinese sources estimated the Japanese could field approximat...
Chinese-American volunteer and/or former provincial/warlord air force pilots
1. John Wong Pan-Yang(黄泮扬): 13 victories (American-born Chinese air force volunteer) 2. John "Buffalo" Wong (黃新瑞) †: 8.5 victories(Chinese-born American volunteer in the CAF) 3. Chen Ruitiana.k.a. Arthur Chin (陳瑞鈿): 7 victories (American-born Chinese air force volunteer) 4. Zhu Jiaxun(朱嘉勋 - Chu Chia-hsun) 5+ victories (former Guangxi-Bai Chongxi/Li Zongren warlord air force pilot) 5. Cen Zeliu (岑泽鎏 - Shim Tsak-lai, Sh'en Tse-liu) †: 5+ victories(former Guangdong-Chen Jitang warlord air force...
R.O.C. commissioned pilots
1. Liu Zhesheng (柳哲生 -Liu Chi-Sheng)[zh]: 11-1/3 (9 confirmed according to Republic of China records) 2. Wang Kuang-Fu (王光復): 8 3. Gao Youxin: 8 4. Yuan Baokang(袁葆康): 8 victories 5. Liu Tsui-Gang (Liu Cuigang) (劉粹剛)[zh] †: 7+ 6. Tsang Shi-Lan (臧錫蘭): 7 7. Tan Kun (譚鯤): 5 or 6 8. Yue Yiqin (樂以琴) †: 5 9. Zhou Zhikai (周志開)[zh] †: 5 10. Zhang Guangming (張光明)[zh]: 5 11. Lo Ying-Te (羅英德): 5 12. Leng Pei-Su (冷培澍): 5 13. Chow Ting-Fong (周廷芳): 6 14. Lu Ji-Chun(呂基純) †: 5 15. Mao Yingchu (毛瀛初)[zh]: 5
Soviet Union
From 1937 to the beginning of 1941, the Soviet Union served as the primary supplier to the ROCAF, and from October 1937 to January 1941, a total of 848 aircraft in 13 batches were ordered by the Chinese government and were supplied on credit, worth roughly 200 million dollars. In addition, there were 37 aircraft transferred to Chinese when Soviet force withdrew from China after the signing of Soviet–German Non-Aggression Pact. These aircraft included 563 fighters, including 252 I-152, 75 I-15...
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While the USSR provided most of the military aircraft to Chiang Kai-shek in the late 1930s, many early Chinese aircraft were supplied by the American Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. In 1937 the Hawk II and Hawk III biplanes comprised the backbone of Chinese fighter aviation. These were soon followed by the Hawk 75 monoplane. The demonstration model Hawk 75N, with non-retractable landing gear was purchased in 1938 and became the personal aircraft of the American advisor to the Aviation Co...
While the modified Hawk 75M with retractable landing gear was created specially for China, it was not widely used in the war against the Japanese. Thirty aircraft, and 82 kits for assembly were delivered in the summer and autumn of 1938. It was planned to assemble the Hawk in a factory operated by the Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company, which h...
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The National Revolutionary Army ( NRA; 國民革命軍 ), sometimes shortened to Revolutionary Army ( 革命軍) before 1928, and as National Army ( 國軍) after 1928, was the military arm of the Kuomintang (KMT, or the Chinese Nationalist Party) from 1925 until 1947 in China.
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The Kuomintang of China (abbreviation KMT ), also often translated as the Chinese Nationalist Party, is a political party in the Republic of China (ROC), known as Taiwan. It was the sole ruling party in China during the Republican Era from 1928 to 1949, when most of the Chinese mainland was under its control.
The Second World War's hostilities came to a close on 2 September 1945, with the defeat of the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany. Taiwan, which had been ceded to Japan by the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895, was placed under the control of the Kuomintang -led Republic of China (ROC) by the promulgation of General Order No. 1 and the signing of the ...