Eighty years ago, the Allies—led by the United States’s Greatest Generation—triumphed and ended the global carnage of World War II. The stories of how the Republic of China (Taiwan) fought side by side with our American allies still resonate in Taiwan, especially the heroic exploits of the Flying Tigers, the First American Volunteer Group (AVG) of the ROC Air Force.

It is important to remember this history, particularly as the People’s Republic of China (PRC) engages in revisionism that falsely casts the communists as the central force in that war. The strength of Taiwan-U.S. ties was forged in the fires of that conflict and has only grown stronger with time.

In the years after the ROC relocated to Taiwan, U.S. aid was vital in helping us survive and rebuild. With that support—and the in

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