"Remembering Heroes: Flying Tigers Photo Exhibition Tour" Opens in Changsha

  湖南省政府門戶網(wǎng)   2024-09-12 12:19:26

The "Remembering Heroes: Flying Tigers Photo Exhibition Tour" opened at Changsha Museum on the morning of September 9. The exhibition is among the first batch of Flying Tigers-themed photo exhibition tours in China. Prior to the launch ceremony, Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial committee and governor of Hunan Province, together with Jeffrey Greene, chairman of the Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation, and Nicholas Burns, U.S. ambassador to China, visited the photo exhibition.

Zhou Haibing, vice governor of Hunan Province, and Qu Hai, provincial secretary general, attended the launch ceremony of the photo exhibition.

On the morning of September 9, a photo exhibition tour commemorating the Flying Tigers opens in Changsha. Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial committee and governor of Hunan Province, together with Jeffrey Greene, chairman of the Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation, and Nicholas Burns, U.S. ambassador to China, visit the photo exhibition.

The Flying Tigers Photo Exhibition (Changsha) was hosted by the Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation and the Hunan People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. It aimed to mark the 79th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the global war against fascism. Lasting from September 9 to October 8, the exhibition features more than 200 historic photographs of the Flying Tigers, highlighting the historic friendship between Chinese and American people and showcasing the touching moments of Flying Tiger veterans coming back to China. Some of the photos were exhibited in China for the first time.

Jeffrey Greene shares the stories behind the photos.

At the launch ceremony, Lushan International Experimental School in Changsha and Muscatine High School in the United States established as Flying Tigers friendship schools. Jeffrey Greene conferred the plaque to the Changsha school.

責(zé)編:唐煜斯

一審:唐煜斯

二審:秦慧英

三審:黃曉輝

來源:湖南省政府門戶網(wǎng)

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