This folder contains a repaint for the Boeing 247 by Wing42. It shows Boeing 247 White Eagle (白鷹) of the Chinese nationalist Air Force. This was a Boeing 247 purchased by young warlord Chang Hsueh-liang, called the “Young Marshal,” which played a key role in a remarkable incident of the Sino-Japanese War.
Called Bai-Ying or “White Eagle,” it brought about a suspension of the civil war and allowed the Red and Nationalist armies to join forces against Japan. In 1935, Chang bought the stock Boeing as his personal transport. Chang Hsueh-liang, while an autonomous warlord, had been staunchly anti-Japanese and anti-Communist. When the Japanese (with Chiang Kai-shek's connivance) drove his Tungpei Army out of its home area, Manchuria, in 1935 it was seriously weakened. Next, he encountered Mao's Red army and was captured.
To Chang's surprise, the Communists did not massacre their many prisoners. Instead, the Manchurian troops were given a short but intense, anti-Japanese indoctrination and sent back to their units. Deeply impressed, Chang immediately flew in his Boeing 247 to the Red capital in Yenan and signed an immediate secret truce. Then, when Chiang Kai-shek came to the Young Marshal headquarters in Sian, Chang Hsueh-liang’s bodyguard invested Chiang Kai-shek’s quarters and arrested the Generalissimo. Within hours, army units across China declared for the mutineers.
Chang dispatched his Boeing to fetch the Communists from Yenan and other warlords. The Reds proposed Chiang Kai-shek, called a truce to the civil war and that all factions wage immediate war on Japan under his leadership. As part of the deal, Chiang Kai-shek was released, and he kept his promise. But he never forgave Chang Hsueh-liang. When the honorable Young Marshal flew to Nanking in his Boeing and surrendered to Chiang by way of apology for his conduct at Sian, the Generalissimo had him imprisoned. The KMT even took him with them when they fled to Taiwan, where he remained in prison well into the 1990s.  Repaint by Jankees, based on the original textures by Wing42