In the first half of 1938, Wuhan became the command center of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and Japanese planes repeatedly attacked each other, and April 29 was Hirohito's birthday, which was called the Tianchang Festival in Japan, and a large-scale air battle broke out again in the sky over Wuhan on that day.
At 14:30 a.m. on the same day, the two sides engaged in a battle, and the Fourth Brigade was besieged by a group of Japanese destroyers with a high superiority, and they fought with each other, and Liu Zongwu, the captain of the 23rd Squadron, was hit by more than 70 bombs by the enemy, and still shot down two enemy planes. Chen Huaimin, a member of the team, was also besieged by the enemy, gave up parachuting during the battle, and directly hit a Japanese plane, both of which fell into the Yangtze River, and was hailed by the people of the time as a symbol of the victory of the Chinese soul over the Japanese bushido, and the martyr was only 22 years old when he was martyred.
The kite is broken, the wind stops, the sky hangs low, and there is silence!
The victim could not hear the hustle and bustle of the world after the incident, and the deceased searched everywhere for the corpse of the brave and brave.
Chen Huaimin's martyr's sister Chen Nan once mourned the sacrifice with a poem and appealed for grief
Even if you shed as many tears as the Yangtze River, what good will it be?
I hope that the people who mislead the country will die, and everyone will strive for the victory.
On June 5 of the same year, people from all walks of life in Wuhan paid tribute to the four martyrs of the Air Force: Zhang Xiaoxian, Yang Shenxian, Chen Huaimin, and Sun Jinjian in the auditorium of the Hankou City Chamber of Commerce
Fighting in space, if you don't succeed, you will become benevolent, and you will not lose the lessons of ten years;
Death and life are common, but for the country not for yourself, forever cherish the eternal clouds.
*From Qiu Zhixian on Sina Weibo, April 29, 2023.