ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 347491
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| Date: | Sunday 1 October 1939 |
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| Type: | Vought O3U Corsair |
| Owner/operator: | ROC Air Force - 12th Squadron |
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| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Chengdu, Sichuan Province -
 China
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| Nature: | Military |
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When pilot Guoyi LIU was practising aerial photographing, his Corsair was misidentified as a Japanese airplane by friendly fighter pilot who then shot him down.
Sources:
Xu, X. 2016. Falling Down—the Life & Death Records of 682 Martyrs of the (China) Air Force. Beijing, China: Unity Press. 540 pp. (in Chinese)
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 01-Nov-2023 13:31 | RDV | Added |
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