James R. Fox, Jr. was born on March 16, 1919 in Dalhart, Texas. In November 1942, to support China’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he volunteered to fly for Pan American Airways, then a joint Sino-US airline, transporting anti-Japanese supplies to China through the dangerous Hump Route. On March 11, 1943, Fox and his two Chinese co-pilots were killed on such a mission when the Douglas C-53 cargo plane they were flying crashed. The Chinese people pledged to remember his name, and in 2002 the Information Office of the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China made a bronze bust in his memory.