Chinese mainland’s last D-Day veteran dies at 91
HANGZHOU: Huang Tingxin, the Chinese mainland’s last veteran of the D-Day campaign to end the Nazi domination of Europe in 1944 has died. He was 91.
Huang, who died on November 11, was made a Chevalier of the National Order of the Legion of Honour, France’s highest recognition of merit in 2006. Upon receiving the medal, Huang said, “The honor goes to all the Chinese soldiers who fought there.”
A graduate of the Qingdao Naval Academy, in east China’s Shandong Province, in 1942 at the age of 24, Huang and 23 other young naval officers went on to study and fight in Britain.