Tsuyung Airfield is a former World War II

World War II

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 United States Army Air Forces

United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces was the military aviation arm of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II, and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force....

 airfield in China

China

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, located east of Chuxiong City (Yunnan Province) in the People’s Republic of China.

History

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

The Hump

The Hump was the name given by Allied pilots in the Second World War to the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains over which they flew military transport aircraft from India to China to resupply the Chinese war effort of Chiang Kai-shek and the units of the United States Army Air Forces based in...

" air transport route over the Himalayan Mountains, from the Assam Valley in India

India

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. The base was host to both Air Transport Command

Air Transport Command

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 units, then Fourteenth Air Force

Fourteenth Air Force

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 Troop Carrier squadrons which moved the equipment and supplies to forward airfields in China. After the end of the war in September 1945, the Americans closed their facilities at the airfield and the airfield appears to have been dismantled. Today the land appears to be part of the industrial area of Chuxiong City with little or no remnants of its wartime past.