Du Fengrui (1933~1958), Fangcheng County, Yanglou Township people.
Du Fengrui, a native of Yanglou Township, Fangcheng County, was born in 1933 and raised in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 1947, where he served as a correspondent and a bugler, and was selected as a flight attendant in March 1952 in response to Chairman Mao's call for the creation of a strong People's Air Force (P.A.F.).
Du Fengrui was born in August 1933 to a poor family in Zhaowa Village, Yanglou Township, Fangcheng County, Henan Province. In order to make a living, Du Fengrui, who was only 8 months old, was carried by his parents in a basket to escape from the famine and struggled to survive. When Du Fengrui was 8 years old, he went to the landlord's house to herd cattle, where he silently endured insults and beatings.
In 1947, when he was 15 years old and Fangcheng was liberated, Du Fengrui tore off his cattle prod and bid farewell to his relatives, and resolutely joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He then participated in the Battle of Wandong, Huaihai Battle, and the Battle of the Yangtze River. He fought bravely, bravely killed the enemy, less than eight months after joining the army, has twice been meritorious, in the blood and fire on the battlefield gradually grew into a strong PLA soldiers.
Du Fengrui
In March 1952, Du Fengrui responded to Chairman Mao's call to "create a strong People's Air Force" and was selected as a flight cadet. He came to Changchun Aviation Preparatory School with excitement. Since he had never attended school, he knew nothing about mathematics, science and chemistry. In the face of difficulties, Du Fengrui did not flinch, triumphantly broke through the cultural barrier.
July of the same year, Du Fengrui went to Jinan Fifth Aviation School to learn aviation expertise, using all the time for self-study. The final exam, Du Fengrui took the first place. A few months later, Du Fengrui was finally able to fly the Silver Eagle into the blue sky alone. After 1952, Du Fengrui was selected to attend Changchun Air Force Preparatory School, the Fifth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Air Force Schools, where he studied aviation theory, primary trainer, advanced trainer, and fighter flight techniques, and in April 1954, he went to the Twelfth Air Force School in Shanxi to study advanced flight techniques. In 1955, he was assigned to a flight brigade at the front line in Fujian, working as a wingman for the skilled and demanding captain. From the actual combat, he and the captain of the ground a piece of practice, the air a piece of flight, feel the characteristics, to find the law, and finally became an excellent pilot, known as "hardcore wingman".
The 25-year-old Du Fengrui is handsome and dashing, but for the sake of his beloved flying career, he did not give much thought to his marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Yu, the directors of the regiment's political department, saw it in their eyes and were anxious, so they introduced their niece Yu Lanfang to Du Fengrui. Love is the most gorgeous flower on the tree of youth! Du Fengrui and Yu Lanfang*** savored the intoxicating aroma together.
The news reached the village of Zhaowa in the eastern foothills of the Furniu Mountains, where his father, Du Longzhang, cut down the yearly seed-bearing tsubaki tree in front of his door and asked a carpenter to make a bed, a box and three stools, and his mother, Wang Changchun, made two beds of bedding for them, and the family pinched their fingers in anticipation of his son's return. But unfortunately, Du Fengrui was unable to return home for the wedding because the army was engaged in military studies.
On August 1, 1958, Du Fengrui and Yu Lanfang were married in a simple ceremony in a 44th Regiment brigade yard of an Air Force division in Hebei province, where firecrackers were heard.
On August 25, Du Fengrui's unit received an order to go to Fujian to carry out combat missions. The company's first step was to submit a letter of invitation to the regiment's party committee. Early the next morning, Yu Lanfang, who is y aware of his duty, silently packed Du Fengrui's clothes and sent him to the airport. When the time came to part, Du Fengrui held his wife's hand tightly with tears in his eyes and did not want to let go. The warplane has flown into the blue sky, Yu Lanfang is still dumbfounded looking, looking ...... She never dreamed that this separation after 24 days of marriage would become a heartbreaking forever!
In 1956, Du Fengrui joined the Chinese ****production party, he wrote in his diary: "a revolutionary, everywhere for the interests of the party and the interests of the people, with selfless, self-sacrificing style, able to for the benefit of the party, the interests of the collective, sacrificing their own interests, and even life".1958 On October 10th, six Kuomintang planes attacked the front line in Fujian Province, and Du Fengrui flew with the first plane to participate in the battle. When one of the enemy planes shelled the long plane, he called the long plane to get rid of the attack and shot at the enemy planes at the same time. While the long plane escaped, Du Fengrui was caught in a heavy siege. He was not afraid of danger, calmly responded to the battle, when he shot down an enemy aircraft, but his own aircraft was hit by the enemy; in this crisis, he still piloted the seriously wounded aircraft, continued to fight tenaciously, until again shot down an enemy aircraft before parachuting. When he was airborne, he was unfortunately hit by enemy bullets and died heroically.
After Du Fengrui's death, his body was buried on the shore of the West Lake in Fuzhou, and the Party Committee of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) called on the whole army to learn from his heroism, and the Ministry of National Defense named the flight brigade in which he lived as Du Fengrui's brigade. To commemorate Du Fengrui, Fangcheng County established the Du Fengrui Memorial Hall in Dongguan County in 1972, and named one of the county's main streets "Fengrui Road" in 1984.
For more information, please refer to the Baidu Encyclopedia entry for Du Fengrui.
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