Tsuyung Airfield (楚雄机场) is a former

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airfield from 1941 to 1945 in Chuxiong County, Yunnan Province, China. As the town urbanized, it found itself right at the town center and got demolished. Its current site became the Chuxiong Post Bureau's main building, at the junction of Lucheng East Road and Lucheng North Road. No remnants of its wartime past could be found there. There was a separate Old Tsuyung Airfield built in 1928, which was replaced by the new Tsuyung Airfield which started construction in October 1938 to deal with the increasing demand of "

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History

The airfield was a major transport hub on the China end of "

" air transport route over the

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, from the Assam Valley in

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. The base was host to both

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units, then

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Troop Carrier squadrons which moved the equipment and supplies to

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s in China.

References

* Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983.
Airfields & Seaplane Anchorages China

USAFHRA Document search - Tsuyung

External links

{{authority control Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in China