Flying Tigers
The Flying Tigers were a volunteer American fighter unit that fought in Burma and China against Japanese forces prior to the official participation of the United States in World War II.
US Air Forces videos[edit]
Flying Tiger newsreels.
Flying Tigers Bite Back
U.S. aircraft[edit]
P-40 maintenance
P-40s at Kunming
Pilots running towards warharks.
Curtiss P-40E
A Chinese soldier guards a line of P-40 planes
A Liberator bomber crosses the shark-nosed bows of U.S. P-40 fighters
P-43s in China.
Crew chief indicates a P-40 pilot's scores.
Japanese aircraft[edit]
Nakajima Ki-43-IIa.
Nakajima Ki-43-II.
Japanese bomber(Ki-21-3) over Chungking.从飞机上俯拍的日军轰炸渝中半岛的照片。
Type Zero aircrafts.
IJA Type 96 bomber over Chungking.
Japanese type97 fighter plane.
Japanese Ki-21-3 ready for war.
Type 96 Japanese attack air-plane.
Four Japanese Navy Type 96 planes.
People[edit]
William Pawley, American businessman, diplomat and intelligence operative, Founder of The Flying Tigers.
Soong May-ling and Claire Chennaul
Claire Chennault in his office at Kunming, China, about May 1942
General Claire Lee Chennault - founder of the Flying Tigers in China
Chennault with his wife
Chennaul wedding photo
Badges, insignias and monuments[edit]
A blood chit with the badge of the Flying Tigers
The badge of the 14th Air Force, successor to the Flying Tigers
Flying Tigers Monument Ocala Florida
