Date: During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea Length: 11 meters Material: Aluminum alloy, steel, rubber, and organic glass
This is the MiG-15 fighter, numbered 079, driven by Wang Hai, the volunteer air combat hero. The nine red stars on the aircraft indicate he has shot down or damaged a total of nine aircraft of the enemy. In the early 1950s, Wang Hai joined in the volunteer air force; he ever served as head of the first group of the 9th Regiment of the Air Force. In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he led his group to fight over eighty air combats and shot down or damaged a total of twenty-nine planes of the enemy. As thus, the group made the greatest record in annihilating the enemy, won the collective first-class merit, and became known as the group led by the hero Wang Hai. Wang Hai himself won the special-class merit and the first-class merit; he was honored as the First-Class Combat Hero of the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army. The aircraft was transferred to the Military Museum by the PLA Air Force in 1959.
