Editing Second Sino-Japanese War (section)

===Overseas Chinese===
Over 3,200 overseas Chinese drivers and motor vehicle mechanics embarked to wartime China to support military and logistics supply lines, especially through Indo-China, which became of absolute tantamount importance when the Japanese cut-off all ocean-access to China's interior with the capture of [[Nanning]] after the Battle of South Guangxi. Overseas Chinese communities in the U.S. raised money and nurtured talent in response to Imperial Japan's aggressions in China, which helped to fund an entire squadron of Boeing P-26 fighter planes purchased for the looming war situation between China and the Empire of Japan; over a dozen Chinese-American aviators, including [[John Huang Xinrui|John "Buffalo" Huang]], [[Arthur Chin]], [[Hazel Ying Lee]], [[Jurong airfield|Chan Kee-Wong]] et al., formed the original contingent of foreign volunteer aviators to join the Chinese air forces (some provincial or warlord air forces, but ultimately all integrating into the centralized Chinese Air Force; often called the ''Nationalist Air Force of China'') in the "patriotic call to duty for the motherland" to fight against the Imperial Japanese invasion.<ref>{{cite web|title=Before the Flying Tigers|url=https://www.airforcemag.com/article/0699before/|access-date=2020-11-08|website=Air Force Magazine|language=en-US|archive-date=25 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125171645/https://www.airforcemag.com/article/0699before/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Major 'Buffalo' Wong Sun-Shui|url=http://www.century-of-flight.freeola.com/Aviation%20history/WW2/aces/Wong%20Sun-Shui.htm|access-date=2020-11-08|website=www.century-of-flight.freeola.com|archive-date=5 September 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905180041/http://www.century-of-flight.freeola.com/Aviation%20history/WW2/aces/Wong%20Sun-Shui.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=2016-11-10|title=Sky's the Limit|url=https://1859oregonmagazine.com/think-oregon/art-culture/hazel-lee/|access-date=2020-11-08|website=1859 Oregon's Magazine|language=en-US|archive-date=30 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130091648/https://1859oregonmagazine.com/think-oregon/art-culture/hazel-lee/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Remembering Hazel Lee, the first Chinese-American female military pilot|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/remembering-hazel-lee-first-chinese-american-female-military-pilot-n745851|access-date=2020-11-08|website=NBC News|date=25 May 2017 |archive-date=11 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211113655/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/remembering-hazel-lee-first-chinese-american-female-military-pilot-n745851|url-status=live}}</ref> Several of the original Chinese-American volunteer pilots were sent to [[Lechfeld Air Base|Lagerlechfeld Air Base]] in Germany for aerial-gunnery training by the Chinese Air Force in 1936.<ref>{{cite web|date=2015-10-07|title=World War 2 Flying Ace Arthur Chin's Amazing True Story|url=https://disciplesofflight.com/world-war-2-flying-ace-arthur-chin/|access-date=2020-11-08|archive-date=26 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326113109/https://disciplesofflight.com/world-war-2-flying-ace-arthur-chin/|url-status=live}}</ref>