Past Event
Saturday, October 1, 2016, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Salute to WWII Flying Tigers in China: Opening Reception
541-B Second Avenue, San Diego, 92101
Call for tickets: 619-338-9888
The San Diego Chinese Historical Museum will be presenting highlights from the photo exhibition Salute to WWII Flying Tigers in China, curated by Pedro Chan, Director of the American Flying Tigers Institute. Included in this exhibition will be select Flying Tigers articles and artifacts from SDCHM’s permanent collection. Special guest lecture with Harry Kaplan, who joined the US Army Air Corps in 1943, becoming a radio operator and gunner aboard a C-46 transport plane operating the China/Burma/India Theater during WWII. His unit provided supplies to American and Chinese forces in China in the famous Hump Operation. RSVP to [email protected].