All the men who carried out the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April 1942 have passed away (Richard E. Cole died in April 2019), and the last living member of the Flying Tigers died in 2020. John Hemingway is the only living RAF airman who fought in the Battle of Britain, and Jiří Pavel Kafka is the last living Czechoslovak airman who fought for the RAF in World War II.

With the centenary of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria coming up in 2031, I can only speculate that a number of Chinese veterans of the Pacific theater of World War II who regard the Japanese conquest of Manchuria in 1931 as the true start of World War II may hold a commemoration honoring Chinese Nationalist Air Force pilots and Flying Tigers crews who defended Chinese airspace from Japan in the war.