Veteran grills Japan's WWII stance

DENVER, Colorado - With China's national day of mourning for the Nanjing Massacre (also known as the Rape of Nanking), less than two weeks away, John Yee, a Flying Tigers veteran, remembers when they posted pictures of mutilated and decapitated Chinese babies on giant placards in downtown Kunming, Yunnan province.

It was 1937 and a few days before Christmas. Yee was 17 years old. He was in Southwest China's biggest city, handpicked as one of 30 translators working with the Flying Tigers.

Even in black and white, the pictures - just sent from Nanjing - of mangled, bloody corpses, young and old, were so graphic and disturbing they cast a pall over the city.