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

The Imperial Calcasieu Museum is itself reflective of local history. The bricks were salvaged from the old Missouri Pacific ...

Jennifer McMullen has her eye on a younger man. Granted, it’s her husband of 79 years, Mel, who turns 100 on June 5.

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 ...

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 ...

Just about the only good news concerned a small group of American pilots, Claire Lee Chennault's American Volunteer Group, called the Flying Tigers in Chinese newspapers. Protecting the city of ...

During World War II, U.S. General Claire Lee Chennault led the Flying Tigers, a group of American volunteer pilots, to China to help the Chinese people expel invading Japanese forces. The Flying ...

And again, the commanding officer of the Flying Tigers was a very experienced American Air Force officer called Claire Lee Chennault. You know, he said there was a quote that I think is really key ...

Nell Calloway (left), granddaughter of US General Claire Lee Chennault, and Flying Tigers veteran Harry Moyer (right) sing a song during a visit to Kunming Foreign Language School in Kunming ...

It was the most numerous U.S. Army fighter plane at the time of Pearl Harbor, and it won fame with General Claire Lee Chennault’s “Flying Tigers,” who took on superior Japanese forces in China.

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 ...