Fan meets veterans and families

Fan Changlong (3rd from right), vice-chairman of China's Central Military Commission, stands next to J.V. "Jay" Vinyard, a US WWII veteran who took part in the China-Burman-India Theater as a transport plane pilot. On Friday morning in Washington, Fan met Vinyard, who helped Chinese during the War of Resistance against the Japanese (1937-1945). Also attending the meeting were Nell Calloway (2nd from right), granddaughter of General Claire Lee Chennault, commander of the US volunteer air force group known as the Flying Tigers; John Domke (2nd from left) and Paula Stering (3rd from left), son and daughter of Paul Domke, who was in the US observer team to Yan'an, the communist cradle during the war; and Chinese Ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai (1st on the right) and members of Fan's visiting delegation. [Photo by CHEN WEIHUA/CHINA DAILY]