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Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian – People’s Republic of China in Russian –
Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) — New sources on the participation of Soviet volunteer pilots in the war were recently handed over to the Nanjing Anti-Japanese War Martyrs’ Memorial Museum, the Yangtze Wanbao (Yangtze Evening Newspaper) reported.
Chinese-American Lu Zhaoning donated 37 relics, including foreign newspapers, magazines, books and other items, to the museum. The donation ceremony was held last week at the museum in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province.
In particular, The New York Times reported on September 26, 1937, that on September 25, 1937, 80 Japanese bombers bombed Nanjing for seven hours straight, killing 200 people and destroying many facilities, including a $1 million power plant. That night, Chinese aircraft retaliated by attacking the Yangshupu airfield in Shanghai.
The sources donated to the museum include the weekly magazine Colliers, published on November 12, 1938. It featured an article by American pilot Alvy Gibbon with an attached photograph related to the aid provided by the Soviet Union to China.
The Nanjing Anti-Japanese War Airmen’s Martyrs Memorial Museum was founded in 2009. Earlier this month, the museum released updated information on the 18 Soviet volunteers who died in the war against Japanese invaders. -0-