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WASHINGTON: An ace United States fighter pilot and one of the last surviving members of the swashbuckling “Flying Tigers” who fought the Japanese for Nationalist China during World War II has died at 103, friends and colleagues announced on Thursday (Sep 16). Serving under the legendary lieutenant general Claire Chennault between 1943 and 1944, Stephen Bonner flew “five confirmed and five probable aerial victories and additionally was credited with damaging two more fighters and bombers”, Jeff Green, chairman of the Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation, told AFP. The Flying Tigers operated out of Burma in the early 1940s in support of...
