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In learning to fly against Japan, the second brother Gong also carried his father's instructions: keep a diary carefully and neatly every day. I kept a diary for three and a half years without stopping for a day. After many confusions, only a diary of 1 10000 words was left in the flight stage of school study. Diary of training and combat, two books written by 1937 and 1938, totaling more than 200,000 words. The original work of 1937 is now in the collection of China People's Military Museum. Because the diary is a hardcover diary bought from the bookstore that year, each book has 365 pages, and only one page can be written every day. Record what you do, hear and think every day, which not only describes the daily life of the troops, but also briefly records the flight situation. The flight diaries here are those of 1937 and 1938. At that time, Gong Yeti was only 2034 years old.
70% of the flight diary is about flight activities, including vigilance, practice flight and air combat. 30% is about the life of pilots (diarists and their teammates), including accommodation, comrades-in-arms exchanges and parties, reading newspapers, sports and entertainment, writing letters and so on. 1937 in the first half of the year, there was no war, but the activities of the air force remained tense. Pilots (whether trainee officers or full-time officers) have to take part in vigilance, practice flying, learn theory and technology and stand by every day. Diaries reflect these activities. ...