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

Flying Tiger newsreels.
Flying Tigers Bite Back

U.S. aircraft

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

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

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
Robert T. Smith
General Claire Lee Chennault - founder of the Flying Tigers in China
Chennault with his wife
Chennaul wedding photo