China Overseas Chinese Network, March 11. According to the US "World Daily" report, the Southern California Flying Tigers cultural relic collector Chen Canpei donated a batch of Flying Tigers historical relics to General Chennault's granddaughter Nell Chennault Calloway on the 9th, and through her donated to Nell Chennault Calloway. Chennault Air Force Museum, Louisiana.

On the 9th, the Overseas Chinese Community of Southern California also donated US$50,000 to the Chennault Air Force Museum to support the construction of the museum and express the good wishes for the long-lasting friendship between China and the United States.

　　This is also the second time Chen Canpei has donated cultural relics of the Flying Tigers in 15 years.

Chen Canpei, who comes from Guangdong and has been to the United States for more than half a century, has been collecting the Flying Tigers cultural relics since 2017, and has donated more than 15,000 pieces of various Flying Tigers cultural relics to museums and cultural and historical centers in China and the United States.

The nearly 100 cultural relics he donated on the 9th included the cultural relics of the Flying Tigers in various periods for more than 80 years, books, periodicals, magazines, special booklets, first day covers, military emblems, pennants, bullets and bullet casings, and the statue of General Chennault.

Chen Canpei also donated a military uniform of the Flying Tigers pilot to the Chinese crew from France who are filming the story of the Flying Tigers and General Chennault.

　　Nell Chennault Calloway, the granddaughter of General Chennault, flew to Los Angeles from Monroe, the hometown of General Chennault, Louisiana. She also accepted the donation of cultural relics from the Flying Tigers as the curator of the General Chennault Air Force Museum.

She said that some people want to change American history, but these precious cultural relics are the testimony of history, and history can never be changed.

　　Nell said she was often asked if her maternal grandfather ever told her the story of his trip to China, or his amazing achievements. "I would always tell them, to me, General Chennault was just the grandfather."

She said her mother, General Chennault's youngest daughter, Rosemary Chennault, was only eight or nine years old when her grandfather went to China.

It was not until much later that her mother told her grandfather's efforts to fight the Japanese in China.

　　Nell recalled that she and her mother traveled to China for the first time in 2002, "We were overwhelmed by the warm reception of the Chinese people, and more importantly, we heard the great suffering and sacrifice of the Chinese during the Japanese occupation. story".

Only then did her mother understand why her father chose to stay in China.

She said that very few Americans understand the sacrifices Americans made for China's war of resistance. This is the importance of the story of the Flying Tigers that should be known to more Chinese and Americans.

　　She said that China-US relations are the most important and one of the most complex in the world today.

Grandfather has been unable to tell his story with the Flying Tigers, and her mother's voice has been silenced, which is why it's so important to speak up for them and get back to the truth of history.

(Yang Qing)