Comrade Liu Yalou:

Comments on the Air Combat Report [I]
(October 2, 1951)

This document [2] has been reviewed. The Fourth Air Division fought bravely, very good and very gratifying. It is correct for you to give them encouragement. The families of those who died heroic deaths should be comforted.

Mao Zedong
October 2

[1] These are Mao Zedong's comments on the report dated September 27, 1951, from Liu Yalou, Commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force, Wu Fakuan, Deputy Political Commissar and Director of the Political Department, and Wang Bingzhang, Chief of Staff.
[2] Refers to the report submitted to the Military Commission on September 27, 1951, by Liu Yalou, Wu Faxian (Deputy Political Commissar and Director of the Political Department of the Air Force), and Wang Bingzhang (Chief of Staff of the Air Force), concerning the multiple air combats conducted by our Air Force's Fourth Division against enemy aircraft over Korea on September 25.