Rescue Patch or Blood Chit

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Items belong to Catfish Raine, served in USN, AVG,CNAC and other ROC aviation company during the wartime. His blood chit is a CBI vision:

This one was bought by a Mr Chan(Chen) from its previous owner, and donated to a museum in Kunming at 2010.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

For SVG pilots and victory day.

 

[Monsoon]

Somewhere buried in all my stuff is a blood chit we had during a local stateside exercise.

English-Hillbilly.

"Plum bad happenings have landed me here. I need some vittles and a place to rest my noggin"

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

My great-uncle was a fighter pilot at the end of WW2, he told that his instructor at the flight school was a member of the SVG in China and flew under the command of ace Rychagov (he told it private - cause Rychagov was repressed and shot in 1941).
Insructor told to my great-uncle that they flew a lot and most of all they were afraid if they were shot down and captured by the Japanese. The Japanese killed the pilots but before that they brutally tortured them.

SVG pilot captured at 1938 July, been tortured for interrogation , and Japanese authority put him in the jail until VJ Day.

 

[Flightengineer]

SVG pilot captured at 1938 July, been tortured for interrogation , and Japanese authority put him in the jail until VJ Day.

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According to info from the Russian historical aviation resource this man in handcuffs - Mikhail Domnin, flight mechanic. On March 14, 1938 his plane was shot down in an air battle in China and taken prisoner. The photo shows that his arms above the elbows are tied with twine, passed behind his back.

 

[Flightengineer]

However, a little search showed that he survived.
Here is his story from his grandson:

Domnin Mikhail Andreevich




Years of life 10/22/1907 - 04/11/1969

The war for our family began much earlier than for everyone else. My grandfather, Domnin Mikhail Andreevich, being an aircraft engineer of the 2nd rank of the Red Army Air Force, after completing courses for senior aircraft technicians - engineers in Leningrad, was sent in 1937 to perform a special task in China (Khalkhin-Gol). After three months of combat work in a squadron of combat aircraft, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. March 14, 1938 the crew received an order to take off on a combat mission. While returning to the front lines, their plane was attacked by Japanese fighters. Grandfather had to jump out of the cab and open the parachute. Upon landing, he was surrounded by a detachment of Japanese troops and offered them armed resistance, but was wounded and taken prisoner. After being beaten, interrogated and tortured, but without revealing military secrets, he was thrown into prison. Seven and a half years in Mukden prison. Torture, hunger strikes, an order for the death penalty. But in spite of everything, he remained a man who did not betray the Motherland. Even there, grandfather improved and developed his mind. During his stay, he learned Japanese to perfection (later he worked as a Japanese translator), made miniature chess from two boards and a toothbrush, exercising every day.
And liberation in August 1945. Japan capitulated! Grandfather said that when he heard Russian speech in the corridors, he cried like a child. Mikhail Andreevich was remembered by everyone as a very kind, honest person who madly loved life and knew how to enjoy the little things.

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

Thank you. It is a lesson, only trust Russian source information.

 

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Mukden prison historical pic, the building itself was demolished at 1958, only part of its perimeter wall remain today.

Torture chamber at Lvshun prison as reference, historical pic and current museum display pic.

 

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At 46:00 a leather blood chit with national china flag

 

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I am looking for further info on Domnin's last mission, I will update later.

 

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At 46:00 a leather blood chit with national china flag

at 65:00 a pacific vision blood chit

 

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At 1941.6.22. Soviet been invaded, no more SVG.