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MakeeLearn -> RE: last living member of Chennault's Flying Tigers, passes away at 96 (1/17/2019 1:09:36 AM)
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"The last surviving member..." ??????
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/wwii-bombardier-dies-in-veterans-home-aged-96-1.563959
" Sherman spent 13 months in China as a bombardier and navigator with the 11th Bomb Squadron of the Army's 14th Air Force, commanded by Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault, said Nell Calloway, Chennault's granddaughter and head of the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum in Monroe.
The 14th Air Force was nicknamed the Flying Tigers after the famed volunteer fighter group that, as a civilian adviser to nationalist China, Chennault had created to defend that country before the U.S. entered the war.
In a telephone interview, Calloway said only one volunteer Flying Tiger, Frank Losonsky, and a few members of the 14th Air Force are still alive.
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