Recently, the experts from the Yunnan Flying Tigers Research Institute and the Yunnan Flying Tigers Museum discovered a large number of relics left behind by the US Flying Tigers during World War II as they inspected Kunming’s Chenggong District.

The experts said that what they found are by far the most concentrated Flying Tigers relic sites discovered in China. They are of great historical and cultural value and are important proof of China-US friendship and cooperation during World War II.

According to Sun Guansheng, president of Yunnan Flying Tigers Research Institute, the sites were discovered in Wulongpu Village in Chenggong District, including a Chenggong airfield, a Flying Tigers headquarters, barracks, fireplaces, wells, reception rooms, door posts, red eucalyptus, air-raid shelters, fuel storage tunnels, stone rollers used for building airfields, a P-40 crash site and runways.