摘要：广西桂林秧塘机场，曾是盟军在华南地区的重要空军基地，也是美国飞虎队（第十四航空队）的主要驻扎地之一。它见证了二战期间中美两国用鲜血凝结的战斗友谊。数以万计的中国民工以双手为铲、以肩膀为车，拖曳石碾，一寸寸压实这条生命之路。他们在极端艰苦的条件下完成机场扩建。只

转自：CGTN

【一座机场，共同的回忆】广西桂林秧塘机场，曾是盟军在华南地区的重要空军基地，也是美国飞虎队（第十四航空队）的主要驻扎地之一。它见证了二战期间中美两国用鲜血凝结的战斗友谊。数以万计的中国民工以双手为铲、以肩膀为车，拖曳石碾，一寸寸压实这条生命之路。他们在极端艰苦的条件下完成机场扩建。只有跑道建成，飞机才能起飞；只有机场存在，飞虎才能翱翔。“那时的百姓自己尚且食不果腹，却宁愿让孩子少吃一口，也要把鸡蛋留给身材高大的美国飞虎队员。”许多飞虎队老兵至今仍清晰记得桂林鸡蛋的滋味——正如美中航空遗产基金会主席杰弗里·格林对CGTN所言：“那不只是食物，更是中国人民以生命相托的深厚情谊。”在那硝烟弥漫的岁月，桂林虽屡遭日军猛烈轰炸，但这座城市与它的人民，却以坚定的信念、如钢的意志和赤诚的热血，书写出不屈精神的永恒历史。Yangtang Airfield in Guilin, in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, stands as a lasting monument to the wartime alliance between Chinese and American forces during World War II. Stories from Guilin, a Chinese city bombed by the Japanese to destroy Allied air bases, epitomize sacrifice and solidarity. Many Chinese people lost their lives building the airfield, as the work was gruelling without machinery. Jeffery Greene, a veteran pilot and chairman of the Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation, recounts for CGTN a profound chapter in the shared history of the two nations. In wartime, he says, while on the brink of starvation, Chinese people would give their children fewer eggs so that rescued American pilots – known as the Flying Tigers, who were generally of a bigger build – could get their calories.

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