During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Chinese people's Volunteer Army Air Force followed the road of "training from actual combat and growing in combat". It never learned to fight air combat, and from small-scale air combat to large-scale air combat. * * * fought more than 26,000 sorties, and completed the tasks of covering transportation lines, defending important targets and cooperating with ground troops. * * * shot down 330 enemy planes and injured 95.

As the air force of the Volunteers was at a disadvantage and paid a high price, 23 1 plane was shot down and 1, 5 1 was injured.

In the battle, our volunteer air force carried forward the spirit of revolutionary heroism, made great achievements, emerged more than 8,000 personnel with third-class merit and above, and established more than 300 units with third-class merit and above. Among them, there are 6 first-class merits and 2 second-class merits. Super hero 16, 68 first-class heroes, of which 2 1 won the title of hero model. Wang Hai, Liu, Sun, Zhao and Zhang are first-class combat heroes and super heroes.

Our volunteer air force experienced the test and exercise of modern air combat in the Korean War and grew rapidly.