[on.cc East Net News]Chen Bingjing, a Chinese veteran who joined the US Army’s 14th Air Force (commonly known as the “Flying Tigers”) during the Anti-Japanese War, died of illness in Hong Kong in the early morning of Thursday (22nd) due to infection with the new crown. 104 years old. Chen Bingjing was the last of the 24 Chinese Flying Tigers to die.
Chen Bingjing, whose ancestral home is Yingchuan, Henan, was born in Putian, Fujian in 1918 and graduated from Xiamen Maritime School. In 1937, after graduating from the Nautical Department of the Maritime School, he went to Shanghai for an internship. Witnessing the Japanese invasion of China, he abandoned the voyage and joined the army. He went to Jianqiao, Hangzhou to be admitted to the 12th training class of the Central Aviation School, and then sent to the United States for training. In March 1943, Chen Bingjing was assigned to the 75th Squadron of the 23rd Brigade of the 14th Air Force and became a warrant officer pilot. He fought dozens of times with the Japanese army and shot down more than ten Japanese fighter planes. He was shot down by a Japanese fighter plane in a battle, and was captured after parachuting to escape. He was imprisoned in Hanoi, Shanghai and Nanjing, Vietnam, and was not released until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945.
After the war, in 1946, Chen Bingjing was transferred to the staff of the First Air Force Brigade. In 1948, he was transferred to the embassy in Canada as a trainee military attache. After the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China in 1949, Chen Bingjing went to Taiwan to work in the Ministry of National Defense. In 1957, Chen Bingjing served as the military attache of the Embassy of the Republic of China in the Philippines. In 1959, Chen Bingjing refused to stay in the post when his term of office expired. He retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel of the Air Force.
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