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Flying Tigers

Nickname given to the American Volunteer Group in World War II, a group of US pilots recruited to fight in China by Maj-Gen Chennault 1940–41. The group proved an effective force against the Japanese over southern China and Burma 1941–42, destroying some 300 enemy aircraft. It was absorbed into the regular US air forces as the 14th Air Force with Chennault as its commander 1942.



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