Henschel HS-123

[marsyao]

rldunn, in later 30, Chinese Central government did receive large amount of German military aid, this was part of chinese military reform, however this process was interrupped by the war, but those military aid was vastly for army, from the airforce perspective, before the war chinese adoptted a rather stupid policy to buy aircrafts from all over the world, in the eve of the war, CAF had on hand those different types of fighter alone : Fakker DXIII/DXVII, Fakker DXVI,Fokker/V.C.D/C.V.E,Dewoitine D-27,Boeing 218,Curtiss Hawk II,Fiat CR20,Fiat CR32,Breda Ba.27 and later Glastes "Gladiator"MKI,Curtise Wright CW-21 and MS 406, what a nightmare ! As I said Germany only provided chinese 18 war planes, so that German aids only played little part to Chinese airforce.
After the war between China and Japan broke out on July 7 1937, German of course did not immediately stopped their military aid to China, Chinese received those 12 Hs-123A1 in the Sprint of 1938, but those aid did decrease to a point make no further difference in 1938 and then stopped in 1939. Started with 1938, large amount of Soviet military aid arrived in China, which vastly excceed those come from Germany, and chinese also received some limited material from British later, but from 1938, Germany was NO LONGER major supplier after 1938, it was Soviet played this part until 1941, after 1942, that Americans became the major military supplier for China

[rldunn]

Two points seem mistaken in the above discussion (1) Germany did not play an important role in supporting the CAF and (2) Germany was not a major supplier of arms to China after 1938.

1. While Germany supplied few complete aircraft, it did supply numerous aircraft accessories, parts and equipment. As previously stated Germany was China's primary arms supplier in 1937-1938 and this included significant quantities of aviation supplies including aircraft tires, armament, and accessories as noted in the preceding sentence.

2. Germany's role in military supplies may have declined in 1939 but it was not small. Example: In two weeks in Feb/Mar 1939 the following arrived in China via Hong Kong from Germany --

a, 88, 578, 500 rounds of m/g & rifle ammo
b. 1, 538, 600 rds pistol ammo
c. 32,000 tank shells
d. 502 machine guns
e. 3,867 pistols and revolvers
f. 82.3 tons of dynamite
g. 3.8 tons of detonators
h. 0.6 tons of percussion caps
g. 358 cases of fuses (some through Haiphong and Rangoon)

During another two week period Sept/Oct 1939 the value of military goods arriving at Rangoon for China was 44, 954 rupees from Germany as compared to 6.970 rupees from the U.S.

Rick