Chen Ruitian is a cool man, with a high nose bridge, deep eye sockets, and angular facial contours, with very obvious mixed-race characteristics. Coupled with a pinch of mustache, the hormone-filled masculine charm can simply fascinate women.

It's a pity that the hero of air combat in history has had a rough time.

First of all, Chen Ruitian is from Chen Jitang's warlord army, although his achievements have long been enough for the trump card title, but the national government has never publicized or commended him. Later, Lai Mingtang, commander-in-chief of the Taiwan Air Force, was upset and said: "Chen Ruitian is Chen Jitang's Guangdong army, not the Central Army. It's ridiculous! ”

Secondly, although Chen Ruitian was promoted by the United States during World War II, he was not selected for the American Air Combat Hero List for a long time. Because he retired due to injury before the United States officially entered the war, and he still played in China, he was not recognized by the selection advisory committee.

The Flying Tigers' ace pilot, Ken Jaynst, is a fan of Chan, and he constantly recommends Chan to be included in the American Air Combat Hero List. Thanks to Jainster's continuous efforts, it was not until 1997 that Chen Ruitian's name was engraved on the list of American air combat heroes, and he was selected as the first American air combat hero of World War II.

Chen Ruitian was very happy to receive the news and planned to attend the commendation ceremony in person. Unfortunately, just a month before the ceremony, Chan passed away and had to be replaced by his grandson.

Even more unfortunate, when Chen Ruitian was injured and seeking medical treatment, he encountered a Japanese air raid on Liuzhou. His wife, Ms. Ng Yuet Mui (daughter of Ng Dinh Fong), was killed by shrapnel when she threw herself on Chan Swee Tin in order to save her husband.

Chen Ruitian's second wife, an American nurse, was discharged from the hospital and returned to China to participate in the anti-Japanese war, and the two broke up. As a result, not long after Chen Ruitian returned to China, and before he could participate in the battle, Japan announced its surrender......

If it weren't for the fact that this time it was to downplay the merits of the Soviet pilots, it is estimated that Chen Ruitian would still not be able to receive the Chinese government's commendation until his death, as in history.

Huang Xinrui, an overseas Chinese from the United States who also belonged to the Guangdong Air Force, was treated much fairer than Chen Ruitian. He has already received a three-star medal, and he will receive another one today, and he will receive another one when he dies.

Huang Xinrui is also a super ace, participated in more than 100 air battles in his life, shot down 8 enemy planes (some say 10), parachuted twice and survived, died in a crash in 1941, and was posthumously posthumously promoted as a lieutenant colonel.

Both of them are overseas Chinese, both from the Guangdong Air Force, why are they treated differently?

The biggest reason is probably because Chen Ruitian's wife is Wu Tingfang's daughter. His eldest brother, Wu Chaoshu, once served as an important member of Chen Jitang's Guangzhou National Government, and also colluded with Sun Ke, and has always been regarded as a thorn in the side of Lao Jiang. Although Wu Chaoshu has been dead for many years, as Wu Chaoshu's brother-in-law, he is still unaccustomed to Chang Kaishen.

As for why there are so many overseas Americans in the Chinese Air Force, because overseas Chinese are patriotic.

A few years ago, not only did Zhou Hexuan open an aviation club in the United States, but also overseas Chinese in the United States directly opened aviation schools, among which the American Overseas Chinese Aviation School (Portland) and the China Aviation School in the United States (San Francisco) are the most famous.

Less than three weeks after the outbreak of the 918 Incident, the Overseas Chinese Aviation School in the Americas began to make preparations for its establishment, with the following objectives: to train aviation personnel, and to do its best to resist the enemy in order to consolidate national defense; Develop the aviation industry internally, and never participate in any political disputes and infighting.

According to the statistics of 1932 alone, more than 5,000 overseas Chinese in the United States asked to enter the aviation academy for training so that they could return to China to fight in the war. On the eve of the Anti-Japanese War and in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, there were about 200 overseas Chinese pilots in the United States, which was close to the number of Chinese fighters, not including the overseas Chinese pilots who returned from Southeast Asia, which also had overseas Chinese aviation schools at that time.

Therefore, during the Anti-Japanese War, China did not lack pilots, but aircraft. Many overseas Chinese pilots had no chance to open and signed up for the army one after another, and countless enthusiastic young people sacrificed their lives on the battlefield of resistance against Japan.

At the beginning, more than three-quarters of the pilots of the Guangdong Air Force under the warlord Chen Jitang were overseas Chinese. These overseas Chinese came back to serve the motherland, but Chen Jitang actually took the initiative to provoke a civil war, and even hired the Japanese to command the air force, so before the war began, the Guangdong air force drove more than 100 planes and directly threw themselves into the arms of Lao Chiang.

It is estimated that Chen Jitang wanted to vomit blood when he heard the news, but it was the air force he spent a lot of money to build, and he didn't do anything to "fund the enemy".

"President Jiang and Mr. Zhongzheng have arrived!"

The Air Force athletes were in high spirits to be reviewed, but dozens of Soviet pilots were an eyesore, and Kurishenko stood in the front row.

Old Jiang smiled and waved his hand, and said as he walked: "You have done a good job, played out the morale of the Chinese, suppressed the arrogance of the Japanese invaders, and let the whole world see the strength of China!" China's War of Resistance is just, justice will surely defeat evil, and the righteous side will surely achieve the final victory! ”

Zhou Zhirou and Feng Yong followed behind Lao Jiang, and the three of them walked slowly to the rostrum.

Lao Jiang stood in front of the microphone and began a long and tiring lecture, which lasted for more than 40 minutes, and finally began to award medals to the Air Force athletes.

The first to be awarded the medal was Mao Yingchu, which was directly the second-class revival medal, which stunned all pilots.

It is worthy of being a fellow countryman, special treatment.

Fortunately, the Datong Medal has not been established at this time, otherwise it would be possible to directly get a Datong Medal as the deputy commander of the Air Force Theater in Mao Yingchu.

And Kurishenko, who really made great contributions, only received a five-star medal, which was much lower than Mao Yingchu's revival medal.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Ruitian, Huang Xinrui and other ace pilots also received Star Medals with different numbers of stars. And each pilot who participated in the bombing mission also received a combat medal, and was awarded a commendation order and a bonus.

Under the crazy photos of the Central News Agency reporters, Lao Jiang actually gave Zhou Hexuan a surprise on the spot without warning in advance.

After awarding the medals to the pilots, Chang Kaishen smiled and said: "I want to praise one person, that is Mr. Zhou Hexuan." Mr. Zhou personally funded the purchase of dozens of fighters, trained excellent pilots for the country, and made great contributions to this bombing mission. Here, Lieutenant General Zhou Hexuan is specially awarded the third-class five-star lion awakening sword! ”

I grass!

Zhou Hexuan walked over to take the knife quite unexpectedly, and couldn't put it down because of this thing. Both the handle and scabbard are decorated with a golden lion relief, and the spike is woven with gold thread and red silk. Pull out the sheath, the blade of the knife is engraved with "difficult to determine the gong" on one side, and "I am martial arts" on the other.

From an artistic point of view, it is far more pleasing to the eye than the Qianlong Imperial Knife.

The Lion Awakening Sword is a medal awarded to those who have been awarded to the rank of general or above in the navy, land and air force, and the medal has been promoted to the highest rank, and has achieved outstanding meritorious service, and there is no suitable medal to award the sword.

This kind of medal knife is divided into nine grades and nine stars, and Chang Kaishen directly awarded Zhou Hexuan a third-class five-star knife, which shows how happy he is today.

Of course, this is also a kind of wooing of Zhou Hexuan, and by the way, he rewarded the credit for winning US loans last year.

Zhou Hexuan naturally reciprocated the favor and said on the spot: "Thank you president, I immediately contacted the Soviets and donated another $3 million for the plane!" ”

Well, it's a donation of planes, not money.

Lao Chiang was also happy when he heard it, the price of Soviet planes was cheap, and he could buy more than 80 planes for $3 million. He suddenly wanted to replace the third-class five-star sword with a first-class nine-star, and maybe he could get 10 million US dollars!