Californian students get history lesson on Flying Tigers

A group of students and faculty from Pepperdine University in California visited the Guilin Flying Tigers Heritage Park on Thursday to learn about World War II-era cooperation between China and the United States as part of a cultural exchange program in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

Built on the site of the former Yangtang Airport, the park honors the US volunteer air unit that aided China during WWII. It is home to the world's only surviving Flying Tigers command post, the last C-47 transport plane to fly the Hump Route, with relics including a cave command post and General Claire Lee Chennault's observation stone.