The Ground-breaking Ceremony:.
Ground is broken for the building of the museum at Guilin's Flying Tiger Heritage Park.
Construction began on July 15, 2011 and is expected to be completed sometime in 2012. A flag raising ceremony is planned for March 2012. The Flying Tiger Historical Organization will present the museum with four American Flags, all flown over our Capitol on December 7th, 2010. FTHO will also present a replica flag of the famous Flying Tiger "V" Flag
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Above: Cave entrance is in center background in this photograph taken of the ground breaking ceremony. Those are 5000 fire crackers on the ground.
Plans are gone over and studied at the beginning of construction.
Progress on Park Construction
This was received from our Chinese counter parts in Lingui County. It is translated from Chinese so it is not a literal quote.
Dear KC Ma Hello! Flying Tigers Memorial Hall with support of you and the help of the Flying Tiger Historical Organization board of directors, scheduled to start today. Memorial's main project is expected to be completed by the end of this year ( the main project), I sent some pictures taken yesterday at the location of the museum spot.
Once again, thank you and the board of directors for your support and help!
I wish good health!
Li Fushen,
Lingui People's Government Tourist Office
January 5, 2012
