Flying Tigers blood chit from ROC National Government, provided courtesy of Robert Baldwin

Flying Tigers blood chit from ROC National Government, provided courtesy of Robert Baldwin

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Flying Tigers; American Volunteer Group; blood chit; Aviation Committee; Republic of China; World War II

A blood chit issued from the Aviation Committee, National Government of the Republic of China, to the American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers). The Chinese characters read vertically from right to left: "來華助戰洋人" (This foreign person has come to China to help in the war effort) and "軍民一體救護" (Soldiers and civilians, one and all, should rescue, protect, and provide him medical care). Image provided courtesy of Robert Baldwin, author of "Last Hope: The Blood Chit Story" (Schiffer, 1997).

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Robert Baldwin

2005-06-22

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IsReferencedBy: "Last Hope: The Blood Chit Story" (Schiffer, 1997) by Robert Baldwin

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0). The original artifact is in the public domain in China (copyright expired 50+ years after publication).