I ran across this comment on a message board discussing East Asian cultural and history matters:
"I just finished reading the book Under The Same Army Flag. It
was printed in China in 2005. The book has over 50 short remembrances
from Chinese soldiers who fought in Burma and India during World War
II. In the chapter titled "War Time" by Li Derun is the following:
'All Americans seemed to be open-minded with lively personalities, men
and women alike. When we were with ground services at the airport, we
often ran into American female pilots who flew small aircraft. The
small aircraft with only two seats were used to rescue injured soldiers,
flying into the most dangerous and difficult locations where there
often was no formal landing strip.
"Unlike Chinese women who tend to be shy and more reserved, American
girls were outgoing, forthright, and each had a unique personality, and
they were dedicated, hard workers too. When there was an injured
soldier, they would spare no effort to rescue him regardless of his rank
or nationality, always safely getting him to the hospital. Their job
had no regular hours, and sometimes they had to fly back and forth
round-the-clock.'
Although the author is a little vague about where and when he was
writing about, it appears to have been the airfield in DinJan in either
late 1944 or early 1945."