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Flying Tigers

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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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