Big Beechcraft vs. Little Beechcraft (大比機 vs. 小比機)

In 1940 the Chinese government bought 10 Beech D17S Staggerwing utility transports as air ambulance. After these light biplanes were assembled in Hong Kong, they were directly flown to inland and received by the Central Aviation Committee (中央航空委員會), then passed on to the CAC transport unit and front-line army HQs.

However, in their “Seisen”, the Japan’s so-called Holy War in 1931-45, there’s no shortage of examples those days as to how Japanese attacked armless air ambulance. Though with salient red crosses on the overall white color scheme, the Chinese mercy birds still repeatedly inhumane strafed by the modern Samurais, soon the olive drab camouflage was over painted for better protection of the Beech D17S and DeHavilland D.H.89A. The sad fact about the Yamato race is that their immorality was not really an anomaly at all, instead it’s part of their standard operational procedure per Bushido.

Under the 15-years long marauding, Chinese were coping with unprecedented assault of areas of their country with dignity and sacrifice, that people can’t imagine those in the West would demonstrate in similar circumstances. Though the Japanese tried fighting for an impractical just end, their malicious means of achieving it created more catastrophes. It’s our duty to make sure history gets the story right, otherwise it is getting wrong from the aggressor's respective.

Hope my Chinese Beechcraft portrayls will be fascinating to the knowledgeable aviation buff: Beech D17S, UC-43, C-45 Expediter, AT-18R, and AT-11 Kansan.