Liu Yalou

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Liu Yalou
刘亚楼
1st Commander of the PLA Air Force
In office 25 October 1949 – 7 May 1965
Chairman	Mao Zedong
Preceded by	Post established
Succeeded by	Wu Faxian
Personal details
Born	April 1910 Wuping, Fujian, China
Died	7 May 1965(1965-05-07) (aged 55) Shanghai, China
Awards	Order of Bayi (First Class Medal) Order of Independence and Freedom (First Class Medal) Order of Liberation (First Class Medal)
Nickname	103 (military call sign)
Military service
Allegiance	China  Soviet Union
Branch/service	People's Liberation Army Ground Force  People's Liberation Army Air Force
Years of service	1929–1965
Rank	General (PLA) Major (USSR)
Commands	Chief of Staff, Manchurian Army Group, Chief commander, People's Liberation Army Air Force
Battles/wars	Soviet-German War (1940) Liaoshen Campaign (1948) Tianjin Campaign (1949)

Liu Yalou (simplified Chinese: 刘亚楼; traditional Chinese: 劉亞樓; pinyin: Liú Yàlóu; April 1910 – 7 May 1965) was a general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army who served as the inaugural commander-in-chief of the PLA Air Force. During the Chinese Civil War, he was chief of staff of Lin Biao's army group, which occupied the entirety of Manchuria in 1948 and captured 472,000 Kuomintang troops in the Liaoshen Campaign.