New book on downed WWII US airman tells heroic tale

SAN FRANCISCO－"The more I learned about this story, the more fascinated I was by this cooperation between the Chinese and the Americans that often happened at a grassroots level," Daniel Jackson said at a June 16 event for the publication of his new book titled Fallen Tigers: The Fate of America's Missing Airmen in China during World War II. "I thought it was a story worth telling that needs to be told."

In his book, Jackson sheds light on the stories of downed American airmen, who were rescued, sheltered, and protected by the Chinese people, who risked everything in helping hundreds of "Flying Tigers "evade capture at the hands of the Japanese army and return to territory controlled by the Allied forces.

Volunteer pilots from the United States fighting Japanese troops in China during World War II are better known in the country as the Flying Tigers.