| Establishment of a WWII Monument in the
Yellow River National Park
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In
1944, the 14th Air Force lost 12 warplanes in an effort to cut off
the Japanese supply route in China. However, on August 3, 1944, Shun-wei
Yang, the late father of Thin & High’s founder, was able to accomplish
the mission by blowing up the Yellow River Bridge with three 500-pounders
dropped from a B-25 that he piloted. Click here to watch a TV documentary on how this difficult mission was accomplished.
In
October 2005, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the
victory of the War against the Japanese Invasion and the wartime contributions
of Mr. Shun-wei Yang, Thin & High erected a monument at the former site of the
Yellow River Bridge, now known as the Yellow River National Park. As of 2007, there are only eight memorials in China for commemorating the
War against the Japanese Invasion —— the first six were commissioned by the Chinese
government while the last two, this monument in Henan and the
Praying Mantis Monument on the Shi-Ling Snow Mountain in Sichuan, were built by Thin & High.
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