At that time the harbors and transportation system in China were under control by the Japanese army, isolating the Kuomintang government from outside world. The small squadron of Flying Tigers ...

“We at Mission China pay tribute to Captain John Angel Chu 朱安琪, the last Chinese-American Flying Tiger hero, who recently passed away at the age of 102. His courage and sacrifices during ...

This was a way to aid China, which had been attacked by Japan. These pilots flew P-40 fighter planes and became known as the Flying Tigers due in part to the famous tiger shark paint scheme along ...

For three years the Japanese had been bombing China from the coast ... Colonel Chennault whipped his volunteers (dubbed the “Flying Tigers”) into shape. By the time he was ready to fight ...

This photo taken with a mobile phone shows a wild Siberian tiger in Changbai Mountain in Northeast China's Jilin province on Dec 3, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua] CHANGCHUN -- The Northeast China Tiger and ...

The Flying Tigers were heroic American military pilots who fought in China during World War 2. The “Chinese American Tigers” were young men from “Chinatown” neighborhoods, sent by the U.S ...

Miraculously though, in the end, he and his friends managed to reach China unscathed. Wasting no time, he quickly sat for an entrance examination to enrol as a trainee pilot to be a Flying Tiger.