The Flying Tigers, or the American Volunteer Group ... Force and became the backbone of the China Air Task Force of the US Army Air Forces. In 1943, the 14th Air Force was activated and replaced ...
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 Flying Tigers were a mercenary group of pilots from the United States who flew combat missions against the Japanese armed forces which had invaded free China in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
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 ...