The Flying Tigers, or the American Volunteer Group, was made up of American volunteer pilots who were drafted by Colonel Claire L. Chennault from 1941 to 1942 to fight with Japanese air force in ...
Jeffrey Greene, chairman of the Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation, gestures as he visits a photo exhibition dedicated to the Flying Tigers in Urumqi, capital of Northwest China's Xinjiang ...
The American Volunteer Group (AVG)—better known as the “Flying Tigers”—would go on to down nine out of 10 Japanese bombers in the first of many air battles in a seven-month campaign that ...
The Flying Tigers were heroic American military pilots who fought in China during World War 2. The “Chinese American Tigers” were young men from “Chinatown” neighborhoods, sent by the U.S ...