Thoughts on commemorative coins?

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I decided to give my Grandmother a call, and got quite the history lesson. I was under the impression that he was in the Flying Tigers. As it turns out he was never in the Flying Tigers, but he navigated with general chenault on a mission or two, and my Grandma has pictures of them together. I thought this was pretty amazing, before the Chinese-Burma-India theatre he actually flew (navigated) the first B-29 that headed overseas. They flew them initially over to England, but flew them to various places in an attempt to pretend that they had more 29's than they actually had. Over in CBI, he was involved in various assignments, including troop chinese troop transport, and later on a few bombing raids. I think the coolest story she told me was that he actually met Mao Tse Tung. The story goes that he was fascinated wih Chinese culture, and was friends with the Dr. Of Mao Tse Tung. The Dr. was an American who was married to a Chinese woman. At the time Mao had not yet come into power, and was living in a cave. The doctor took him and one other guy to the cave one day,and he met Mao Tse Tung and Chou En Lai. My grandma must have talked for 2 hours, and I think she said he was stationed at Kunming. Anyway I'm a huge history buff, and found this all fascinating. Love and miss my Grandpa, and he was a very humble person. He just wouln't go around bragging about this kind of stuff.

 

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wow, nice pick-ups jack.

 

I wish those pics are from perth mint i have bidded for the set before but never won it, perth mint coins always have a strong user base.

 

I wish more veterans would brag about that stuff. I've been educated by WWII and WWI veterans and you can't get that kind of knowledge in any history book from any school anywhere. Nothing is more special than learning from those who actually experienced it first hand.