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Arthur Chin, the Glossary

Arthur Tien Chin (Cantonese: Chan Sui-Tin; October 23, 1913 – September 3, 1997) was a pilot from the United States who participated in the Second Sino-Japanese War.^[1]

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American aviators of Chinese descent
American military personnel of Chinese descent
Chinese World War II flying aces
Chinese aviators
Military personnel of the Republic of China in the Second Sino-Japanese War
Republic of China Air Force personnel

Air Medal

The Air Medal (AM) is a military decoration of the United States Armed Forces.

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Aloha, Oregon

Aloha (not) is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon, United States.

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The Battle of Nanking (or Nanjing) was fought in early December 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War between the Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army for control of Nanjing (Nanking), the capital of the Republic of China.

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Battle of Shanghai

The Battle of Shanghai was a major urban battle fought between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China in the Chinese city of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Battle of South Guangxi

The Battle of South Guangxi was one of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Battle of Taiyuan

The Japanese offensive called 太原作戦 or the Battle of Taiyuan was a major battle fought in 1937 between China and Japan named for Taiyuan (the capital of Shanxi province), which lay in the 2nd Military Region.

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Battle of Wuhan

The Battle of Wuhan, popularly known to the Chinese as the Defence of Wuhan, and to the Japanese as the Capture of Wuhan, was a large-scale battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Burma campaign

The Burma campaign was a series of battles fought in the British colony of Burma.

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Canton Operation

The Canton Operation (pinyin: Guǎngzhōu Zhànyì) was part of a campaign by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War to blockade China to prevent it from communicating with the outside world and importing needed arms and materials.

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Cantonese

Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta, with over 82.4 million native speakers.

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Chen Jitang

Chen Jitang (January 23, 1890 – November 3, 1954), also spelled Chen Chi-tang, was a Chinese military officer during the era of Nationalist China.

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China National Aviation Corporation

The China National Aviation Corporation was a Chinese airline which was nationalized after the Chinese Communist Party took control in 1949, and merged into the People's Aviation Company of China (中國人民航空公司) in 1952.

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Chinese Americans

Chinese Americans are Americans of Chinese ancestry.

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Chinese Flying Club of Portland

The Chinese Flying Club of Portland (CFCP) was a flying school founded in 1932 in response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

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Curtiss F11C Goshawk

The Curtiss F11C Goshawk is an American naval biplane fighter aircraft that saw limited success.

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David Wu

David Wu (born April 8, 1955) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1999 to 2011.

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Development of Chinese Nationalist air force (1937–1945)

The Chinese Nationalist Air Force (中國國民黨空軍) or simply The Republic of China Air Force (中華民國空軍) was the Air Force formed by the Kuomintang (KMT) after the establishment of the Aviation Ministry in 1920.

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Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)

The Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) is a military decoration of the United States Armed Forces.

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Flying ace

A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Gloster Gladiator

The Gloster Gladiator is a British biplane fighter.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China.

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Hazel Ying Lee

Hazel Ying Lee (August 24, 1912 – November 25, 1944) was an American pilot who flew for the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II. Arthur Chin and Hazel Ying Lee are American aviators of Chinese descent and American military personnel of Chinese descent.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya.

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Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service

The (IJNAS) was the air arm of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).

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Japanese occupation of Hong Kong

The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when the governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young, surrendered the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to the Empire of Japan on 25 December 1941.

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Jeju Island

Jeju Island (Jeju/) is South Korea's largest island, covering an area of, which is 1.83% of the total area of the country.

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Jiaxing

Jiaxing, alternately romanized as Kashing, is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province, China.

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Jurong Airfield

Jurong Airfield, may also be romanized as Chuyung (Cantonese), was an air force base serving in defense of former capital city of Nanjing during the Republic of China era on the mainland.

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Korea

Korea (translit in South Korea, or label in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula (label in South Korea, or label in North Korea), Jeju Island, and smaller islands.

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Kuomintang

The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949.

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Lechfeld Air Base

Lechfeld Air Base is a German Air Force (Luftwaffe) base located 1 km east of Lagerlechfeld in Bavaria, about 20 km south of Augsburg on the Bundestrasse 17.

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List of World War II aces from China

This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from China, officially the Republic of China. Arthur Chin and list of World War II aces from China are Chinese World War II flying aces.

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Major (rank)

Major is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Member of congress

A member of congress (MOC), also known as a congressman or congresswoman, is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature.

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Mitsubishi G3M

The was a Japanese bomber and transport aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJNAS) during World War II.

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Mukden incident

The Mukden incident was a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

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National Aviation Education Center

The Henry B. Tippie National Aviation Education Center (NAEC) is an aviation museum operated by the American Airpower Heritage Museum (AAHM), an affiliate organization of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF), headquartered at Dallas Executive Airport in Dallas, Texas, United States.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Republic of China Air Force

The Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF; known historically as the Chinese Air Force and colloquially as the Taiwanese Air Force) is the military aviation branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces, based in Taiwan since 1947.

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Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931.

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Taishan, Guangdong

Taishan, alternately romanized in Cantonese as Toishan or Toisan, in local dialect as Hoisan, and formerly known as Xinning or Sunning (新寧), is a county-level city in the southwest of Guangdong province, China.

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Taishanese people

Taishanese people (Taishanese: Hoi San Ngin), Sze Yup people (Taishanese: Hlei Yip Ngin), or Toisanese are a Yue-speaking Han Chinese group coming from Sze Yup (四邑), which consisted of the four county-level cities of Taishan, Kaiping, Xinhui and Enping.

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The Hump

The Hump was the name given by Allied pilots in the Second World War to the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains over which they flew military transport aircraft from India to China to resupply the Chinese war effort of Chiang Kai-shek and the units of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in China.

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Type 92 machine gun

The was developed for aerial use for the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1932.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas, and its associated states.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Chin

Also known as Art Chen, Art Chin, Chen Rui Tian, Chen Rui-tian, Chen Ruidian, Chen Ruitian, Chin Shui-Tin, Chin Shuitin, Chin, Arthur, Maj. Arthur Chin, .

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See also

American aviators of Chinese descent

American military personnel of Chinese descent

Chinese World War II flying aces

Chinese aviators

Military personnel of the Republic of China in the Second Sino-Japanese War

Republic of China Air Force personnel

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