Here are five things you should know about the Flying Tigers: 1. One man was behind the genius of the AVG’s winning air strategy: Claire Chennault. U.S. Army Air Corps aviator Claire Chennault ...

The Flying Tigers were one of the first American air units to fight the Japanese as World War II began. A gruff Texas native, Claire Chennault, organized the volunteer force in the months before ...

Enter Claire Lee Chennault ... air battles over Rangoon that stamped the hallmark on its fame as the Flying Tigers," Chennault later wrote in his memoir Way of a Fighter, as quoted by the AVG ...

The Flying Tigers. First rate American pilots who in search of adventure went to help the Chinese break Japanese air superiority. Under the command of Claire Lee Chennault they were one of the ...

The Flying Tigers was one of the first American air units to fight the Japanese as World War II began. A gruff Texas native, Claire Chennault, organized the volunteer force in the months before ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War, a commemorative photo exhibition honoring the ...

Before the Flying Tigers were stationed in Kunming, they trained at a British airfield in Burma. Smith (at left) sifts through parts in a P-40 boneyard. Claire Chennault (between men in flight ...

The Flying Tigers flew their final missions in July ... Nationalists and Communists dissolved into bloody civil war, Claire Chennault’s cargo planes supplied Chiang’s troops.

When twelve combat veterans of Major General Claire Chennault’s famed Flying Tigers sank their savings into an airline in 1945, they were sold on the future of air freight. But, as one Flying ...

Claire Chennault died in 1958 of lung cancer ... "Anna Chennault was a true pioneer: as a courageous young woman helping the Flying Tigers during World War II and as a proud Chinese American ...

When Major General Claire Chennault, wartime commander of World War II’s famed Flying Tigers, decided to start an airline in the Far East in 1946, most professionals gave him about as much ...

Gen. Claire Chennault. Chennault founded the Flying Tigers as a group of American pilots flying for China’s air force. They were later absorbed by the U.S. military when it expanded its ...