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BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Nell Calloway, granddaughter of late U.S. General Claire Lee Chennault, remembers her grandfather as a gentle, ordinary man with a beautiful garden and a love for storytelling.


Calloway was eight years old when Chennault passed away. It was only later when she saw a photo of Chennault in military uniform that she began to understand that her ordinary grandfather had lived an extraordinary life.


Calloway is now director of the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum located in Monroe Noah Syndergaard Mets Jersey , in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The museum is the only one in the United States dedicated to Chennault's heroic deeds and the history of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), the air corps that fought alongside the Chinese while fighting Japan during WWII.


"Many Americans seem to have forgotten that China and the United States were close friends in the fight against Japan," she said. "I hope my work helps remind others of this important relationship."


China was the first nation to fight fascist Japanese forces. The struggle started on Sept. 18, 1931, when Japanese troops began their invasion of northeast China.


On July 7 Michael Conforto Mets Jersey , 1937, Japanese troops attacked Marco Polo Bridge on the southwest outskirts of Beijing, mounting a full-scale invasion.


Throughout WWII, China was a major battlefield in the fight against the Japanese fascist invasion and the major Asian battlefield in the war against fascists worldwide. China fought, shoulder to shoulder Asdrubal Cabrera Mets Jersey , with other members of the allies against fascism.


In 1941, close to 300 young Americans registered to join the AVG and departed for Asia.


Organized and commanded by Chennault, the AVG was a volunteer band of pilots and ground staff whose sole purpose was to help China fight invading Japanese troops before the United States officially entered WWII.


They came to be known as the "Flying Tigers."


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While visiting his son in Los Angeles in 2000, Zhou Bing, a retired official of the Civil Aviation Administration of China David Wright Mets Jersey , saw an old friend on television. Staring back at him from the television set was Dick Rossi, Zhou's copilot during WWII. The two men had not seen each other for over half a century.


Rossi, from California, was enrolled in the electrical engineering program at