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[quote=ROGERINCA,236104]Thank you Yvonne, for remembering these brave young men, who fought and the many who died so far from their homes in America and Canada.  Most, if not all of these flyers have now passed on.

The Flying Tiger main base was at Kunming (not sure if spelling later changed with pinyin) there were other bases including one at Kweilin, and another important one at Chengtu (now Chengdu).  The man in the attached photo, grew up in my small town in Northern California, before going off to college near San Francisco, and then on to flight school and immediately to China, with the Flying Tigers, in 1941.

Also, as I mentioned in a previous post early last year, there was a large B-29 (heavy bomber) base at Chengdu.  The four runways in the area outside of Chengdu, were all precision built by hand, without any heavy machinery, by the hard working local Chinese citizens.  Some of the very first bombing raids on mainland Japan, over 100 bombers on a single mission, were launched from this base, deep within China.  Also, Japanese troops who had entered (invaded) eastern China, from Nanking (Nanjing) to Canton (Guangzhou) were also hit hard by the B-29’s based in Chengdu, during 1944 and early 1945.

I am happy to see that many in China have not forgotten this.  So many in my country and other (Pacific area) western nations, have forgotten this aspect of history.  This is but one of the reasons my heart is so close to China.  My uncle, my father's youngest brother, fought in this region from 1942 (age 18) until the end of the war in 1945.  He is very old, but still alive today; moreover, he still suffers from the after effects of Maleria, and injuries received in a Japanese prison camp, near the very end of the conflict.

Thank you !!![/quote]

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