(February 1, 1952)
Extend congratulations to the Third Division of the Air Force.
Mao Zedong
February 1
[1]
This is Mao Zedong’s comment on the report dated January 31, 1952, from Liu Yalou, Commander of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force, Wu Faxian, Deputy Political Commissar and concurrently Director of the Political Department, and Wang Bingzhang, Chief of Staff.
[2]
The report by Liu Yalou and others stated: The Third Division of the Volunteer Army Air Force, from October 21, 1951, to January 14, 1952, over a total of 86 days, engaged in air combat at Anle, shooting down and damaging a total of 63 enemy aircraft, achieving relatively large results at a relatively small cost.