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Wocca · Scribe Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 970 Location:

The Flying Tigers

Long before today’s group of expatriates began flooding
China’s classrooms & boardrooms, American and British
servicemen fought alongside the Chinese in South East
Asia during World War II

Click link for more:
http://www.chinaexpat.com/magazine/2007/09/stories-wwii.html

Alan Stepney · Centurion Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 853 Location:

Many/most of the Flying Tigers were Americans.
The British have a long history in China, from the Shanghai incident through to the Yangtse incident, many years later.

There was a substantial British population in China, in the late 20's-early 30's and, of course, they were a target for the Japanese, during and after the Manchuria incident.

A large area of conflict that few in the west know much about.
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