BEIJING — Eight decades after he first came to China, as a U.S. fighter pilot defending against Japanese forces, Harry Moyer is back in the country on a very different mission. Moyer, 103, whose ...

Both countries want more people-to-people exchange, said U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns, who hosted the Flying Tigers ceremony in a small embassy gymnasium with a basketball hoop.

Over the past week, Flying Tigers veterans and their family members received the warmest of welcomes in China. On the Great Wall, tourists waved at them and took photos with them. At the Museum of ...

They reunited with and traveled to China alongside first-, second-and even third-generation Flying Tigers' descendants. The 10-day visit, which ended earlier this month, saw a delegation of more ...

Nearly 100 attendees from China and the U.S. gathered for the commemoration, including a delegation of Flying Tigers veterans and their descendants brought together by the Sino-American Aviation ...

Gen. Claire Chennault. Chennault founded the Flying Tigers as a group of American pilots flying for China’s air force. They were later absorbed by the U.S. military when it expanded its ...

Vice-President Han Zheng welcomed the group led by Harry Moyer and Mel McMullen, two former members of the US 14th Air Force, or “Flying Tigers”, who helped to defend China against Japanese ...

A Flying Tigers delegation from the US pays tribute to anti-Japanese aviation martyrs in Nanjing, in China's Jiangsu province, on Tuesday. On the same day, the memorial hall announced the addition ...