Keywords: 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). 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). |