The bears came to China on 193 1 or 1932. His main task is to publicize the superiority of American fighters to China and promote American fighters. However, with the Japanese invaders igniting the wars in the three northeastern provinces and Shanghai, Short was very angry and decided to support War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the people of China, as a volunteer. He not only trained China pilots, but also directly flew planes to fight Japanese planes he met in the air.
1932 In mid-February, Short flew his Boeing 2 18 for the first time in an air battle with Japan. He once met the fighter formation of Japan's Nakajima A 1N2 over the Yangtze River estuary, which took off from the Japanese aircraft carrier Fengxiang. He shot first, wounded one person and left the battlefield. A week later, on February 22nd, 1932, Short flew from Shanghai to Nanjing. Near Suzhou, he met a formation consisting of three Mitsubishi B 1M two-seater attack planes and three Nakajima A 1N2 fighters, which took off from the Japanese aircraft carrier "Kaga" (which is also the main warship of the United States attacking Pearl Harbor in the future). Short was captured by a 1N2 fighter. He killed the gunner of a B 1M attack plane, but at the same time he was bitten by a Japanese plane, and finally fell into Dushu Lake, which is 0/0 km away from Suzhou/KLOC-0, and died on the spot at the age of 27.