In 1981, while renovating a farmer's home on Hainan Island, his son found a well-preserved semi-automatic rifle. In order to comply with the country's strict prohibition of private possession of firearms, the son intends to return the gun**.
However, when my father heard this, he was furious and resolutely refused to give in, saying that this gun was given away by *** and could not be easily handed over to others.
Are you curious, in the 60s of the last century, why did an old farmer receive a semi-automatic rifle as a gift? Behind this is actually the heroic deeds of the Hainan military and civilians against the American snitch.
In 1964, the United States brazenly created the "Gulf of Tonkin Incident" to expand the Vietnam War and bring the flames of war to China's doorstep. Although China did not officially enter the war, it gave Vietnam a large amount of equipment and supplies, and directly warned the United States that as long as it dared to send ground troops to cross the 17th parallel, China would immediately send troops into Vietnam to participate in the war.
The United States was frightened by the Chinese volunteers in Korea, so it never dared to send ground troops into North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. However, the United States still regularly sends a large number of warplanes to bomb North Vietnam, and even intrudes into China's airspace to harass and provoke.
Hainan Island is located near the Beibu Gulf of Vietnam, so US warplanes frequently come to provoke them. In the face of enemy aggression, our troops did not hesitate to counterattack. On September 20, 1965, a US F-104C fighter plane intruded into the Leizhou Strait without authorization, and the commander of the Gao Xiang Group of the Chinese Naval Air Force immediately intercepted it.
However, at that time, there was a big gap between our fighters and the US military, not only in terms of performance, but also in the US military was generally equipped with sophisticated missiles, while our army could only use old artillery and machine guns.
Therefore, it is very likely that our fighter plane was shot down by a US missile before it could enter the missile range. However, Captain Gao Xiang did not deter from this, he had already made up his mind to drive these American snitches away even if he used the plane to ram them.
Perhaps it was precisely because of Gao Xiang's attitude of not fearing life and death that the US military plane wanted to escape after hurriedly firing two missiles. However, Gao Xiang did not miss this opportunity, aimed at the enemy plane, pressed the button, and with a machine gun, he successfully hit the enemy plane, forcing the US pilot to parachute to escape.
Fu Qihe, a veteran guerrilla who was a soldier of the Qiongya Column before the liberation and is still a militia member, witnessed a scene that he will never forget. He saw a man parachuting from the air, thinking it was a PLA pilot, so he drove a small boat to rescue people.
But when he got closer, he found that the man's clothes were very strange, bells and whistles, and did not look like the clothes of our army at all. When I got closer, it was an American with blue eyes and a big nose!
Fu Qihe was not afraid, but picked up a bamboo pole as a **, firmly confronted the American, and made him surrender. The American was already frightened and had to obediently raise his hands in surrender.
Fu Qihe took him back to shore and handed him over to the local troops. After the matter was reported to ***, the chairman was also very happy, and especially praised Fu Qihe: "This militia is really not simple!" ”
On the eve of the National Day, ** invited Gao Xiang and Fu Qihe to participate in the National Day parade. Not only did they participate in the parade, but they were also personally received by *** and ***, which made them very excited.
To Fu Qihe's surprise, after returning home, he received a special gift from the local military district: a semi-automatic rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition! It turned out that ** was very appreciative of Fu Qihe's heroic performance, so he ordered the commander of the navy, Xiao Jinguang, to reward him with this gun and called on the national militia to learn from him.
Fu Qihe cherished this rifle so much that he hid it so carefully that even his son did not know it existed. It wasn't until 1981 that his son accidentally discovered the rifle.
Although Fu Qihe was very reluctant to give the gun to others, he knew that this was the policy of the state, so he still handed the gun to the local museum and kept it.