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The Kweilin incident occurred on August 24, 1938 when a Douglas DC-2 airliner named Kweilin carrying 18 passengers and crew was shot down by Japanese aircraft in China.^[1]

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1938 in China
Accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-2
Airliner accidents and incidents involving ditching
Airliner shootdown incidents
August 1938 events
Aviation accidents and incidents in 1938
Aviation accidents and incidents in 1940
Aviation accidents and incidents in China
History of Guangdong
Japanese war crimes in China
Pan Am
Second Sino-Japanese War crimes

Bank of Communications

Bank of Communications (BOCOM or BankComm) is the fifth-largest bank in mainland China.

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Bantam Books

Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group.

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Burma Road

The Burma Road was a road linking Burma (now known as Myanmar) with southwest China.

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Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

The Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan), known from 1924 to 2007 as the Central Bank of China and still referred to under the acronym CBC, is the central bank of the Republic of China.

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Chengdu

Chengdu is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan.

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China National Aviation Corporation

The China National Aviation Corporation was a Chinese airline which was nationalized after the Chinese Communist Party took control in 1949, and merged into the People's Aviation Company of China (中國人民航空公司) in 1952.

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China's Wings

China's Wings: War, Intrigue, Romance and Adventure in the Middle Kingdom during the Golden Age of Flight is a 2012 book by Gregory Crouch, published by Bantam Books.

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Chongqing

Chongqing is a municipality in Southwestern China.

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Douglas DC-2

The Douglas DC-2 is a 14-passenger, twin-engined airliner that was produced by the American company Douglas Aircraft Company starting in 1934.

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Eurasia Aviation Corporation

Eurasia Aviation Corporation was a Chinese airline headquartered in Shanghai.

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Flight Safety Foundation

The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit, international organization concerning research, education, advocacy, and communications in the field of aviation safety.

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Hankou

Hankou, alternately romanized as Hankow, was one of the three towns (the other two were Wuchang and Hanyang) merged to become modern-day Wuhan city, the capital of the Hubei province, China.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Hu Bijiang

Hu Yun, courtesy name Bijiang, (1881-1938) was a Chinese banker and former chairman of the Bank of Communications.

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List of airliner shootdown incidents

Airliner shootdown incidents have occurred since at least the 1930s, either intentionally or by accident. Kweilin incident and List of airliner shootdown incidents are airliner shootdown incidents.

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Liuzhou

Liuzhou (IPA Pronunciation) is a prefecture-level city in north-central Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China.

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Lorenz beam

The Lorenz beam was a blind-landing radio navigation system developed by C. Lorenz AG in Berlin.

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)

The is an executive department of the Government of Japan, and is responsible for the country's foreign policy and international relations.

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National Commercial Bank (China)

The National Commercial Bank Limited, also known as Zhejiang Xingye Bank, was a Chinese bank considered one of the "Three Southern Banks" during nationalist government era.

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North China Daily News

The North China Daily News (in Chinese: Zilin Xibao), was an English-language newspaper in Shanghai, China, called the most influential foreign newspaper of its time.

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Paddy field

A paddy field is a flooded field of arable land used for growing semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro.

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Pan Am

Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and more commonly known as Pan Am, was an airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial overseas flag carrier of the United States for much of the 20th century.

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Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931.

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Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury

The Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury was an English language newspaper in Shanghai, China, published by the Post-Mercury Co.

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Sichuan

Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north and the Yungui Plateau to the south.

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Sina Corporation

Sina Corporation is a Chinese technology company.

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South China Morning Post

The South China Morning Post (SCMP), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group.

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Strafing

Strafing is the military practice of attacking ground targets from low-flying aircraft using aircraft-mounted automatic weapons.

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Sun Fo

Sun Fo (21 October 1891 – 13 September 1973), courtesy name Zhesheng (哲生), was a Chinese politician and high-ranking official in the government of the Republic of China.

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Sun Yat-sen

Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925),Singtao daily.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Ventricular tachycardia

Ventricular tachycardia (V-tach or VT) is a cardiovascular disorder in which fast heart rate occurs in the ventricles of the heart.

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Wuzhou

Wuzhou (postal: Wuchow; Ngouzcouh / Ŋouƨcouƅ), formerly Ngchow, is a prefecture-level city in the east of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China.

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Xu Xinliu

Xu Xinliu (used Singloh Hsu as his English name in his lifetime, also known by the courtesy name Zhenfei,Ji, Weilong, p. 52. 1890 – 1938), was a Chinese banker.

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Yunnan

Yunnan is an inland province in Southwestern China.

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Zhanyi Airport

Zhanyi Airport is a former civilian airport and military air base, located about southeast of Zhanyi, Yunnan Province in the People’s Republic of China.

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