World War II US veterans recall flying aid to China

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On Tuesday, veterans and officials from China and the US celebrated the 80th anniversary of the Flying Tigers – American pilots who flew for China in World War II – as a historic example of better relations and cooperation.

FILE - Guarded by a Chinese soldier, a squadron of Curtiss P-40 fighter planes, decorated with the typical shark face of the famed Flying Tigers, are lined up at an unknown airbase in China in 1943. Veterans, historians and officials from China and the United States celebrated the 80th anniversary of the Flying Tigers, an air unit that delivered aid to Chinese troops fighting the Japanese military occupation during World War II. The meeting on Tuesday, Nov.

The online event came the day leaders of the two countries held a summit by video link at a time when ties have sunk to a multi-decade low due to conflict over trade, Taiwan, human rights and other issues. “Our two countries should carry forward the friendship forged in battle by our people, rather than falling into misunderstanding, miscalculation or even conflict and confrontation,” Qin said on Tuesday, the day after the virtual meeting between Biden and Xi.

“It was some of the most difficult flying in the world,” said Robin Moore, a veteran of the Flying Tigers. “You could fly on a clear day from Assam to China by following the shining planes that had gone down.” One American fighter pilot survived a crash landing and was hidden by an elderly woman who refused to give him up despite torture by Japanese soldiers, said Zheng.

 

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