Lot 11614-3: Second Sino-Japanese War, July 1937-September 1945.   Battle of Changsha, January 1942.   Lieutenant General Joseph E. Stilwell decorates Captain Tsang Hsi-lan with the award of the Silver Star for gallantry in the air.  The Chinese pilot, flying a fighter plane of the Chinese Air Force, is a courageous and aggressive attack requiring superior flying skill, saved the life and plane of an American flight leader during a heavy bomber raid on Japanese installations in Central China.  He destroyed the enemy Zero aircraft which was attacking the flight leader’s crippled aircraft.  Office of War Information Photograph.  (2016/01/22).
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