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Chava61 is a good poster in my book it is the article that is the issue.
Oh, I agree, and he probably just took the phraseology from the page as he was reading it. That's why I didn't criticize until I saw how sloppy the whole article was, and placed the blame where I think it belongs.
Thanks too, to Des-Lab for bringing up the airline. I'd heard of them, but I'd have guessed that the name was just an homage to the AVG. In the research I was doing for the post above, I learned that the airline was founded by some actual veterans of the 1st AVG.
The Flying Tigers, officially known as the American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force, were a group composed of ex-pilots from the U.S. military. Between December 1941 and September 1945, the Flying Tigers shot down 2,600 Japanese military planes, destroyed 44 warships and killed 66,700 Japanese soldiers. I just thought this was interesting to share with others interested in aviation.
Regardless of the debate in the thread about who the real Flying Tiger were, it appears from the China Daily article that the gentleman was a courageous and patriot fellow.
RIP. Thanks for post it plus the museum article posted by Cava61;I will add that to my list of things to see. 67 and read God is My Co-pilot in grade school.
The Real Flying Tigers were the members of the AVG, which was disbanded on July 4, 1942, There were no Flying Tigers after then, they were members of the 14th Air Force. This was as straight from the horses mouth as you can come, a conversation between myself and Tex Hill of the AVG and later 14th Air Force.
Try reading "God is my Co-pilot" (I forgot the author's name) by an active AVG Flying Tiger fighter (P-40) flyer.
He wasn't an actual volunteer group pilot but a USAAF pilot on loan or liaison to the "civilian" or "mercenary" American Volunteer Group Flying Tigers who got a bounty for confirmed kills. That the regular Army Air Force groups which came after the first few months of the war adopted the Flying Tigers name and shark mouth paint schemes leads to the confusion of just how much the AVG Flying Tigers did in six months as opposed the 14th USAAF Flying Tigers in three years
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