Following an aborted mission to bomb the infamous Yellow River Bridge just north of Chenghsien, a single Chinese-American Composite Wing B-25 flew on August 12, 1945, to the Nangyang-Yochow-Siangying delta area and dropped hundreds of thousands of “informational leaflets” printed in both the Chinese and Japanese languages. They announced the joyous news that “JAPAN HAS SURRENDERED! WAR IS COMPLETELY OVER!”

On August 22, 1945, Maj. Gen. Takeo Imai, Vice-Chief of the General Staff of China Expeditionary Army, and his interpreter took part in the surrender of Japanese military forces in China. It took place in Chihkiang (now Zhijiang). This was the most easterly of the 14th Air Force bases at the time the Japanese attempted to capture it, but revitalized Chinese ground troops, supported by the 3rd and 4th Bomb Squadrons and the 5th Fighter Group, stopped the advance and turned the tide of war.