Follows the legacy of the Flying Tigers, a group of pilots recruited to defend China from air assaults by the Japanese. Includes the most recent U.S., British and Japanese scholarship, as well as new material from AVG veterans.
"On December 7, 1941, a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into armed conflict with Japan. In the first three months of the war the Japanese seemed unbeatable as they seized American, British, and European territory across the Pacific: the Philippines, Sin…
"On December 7, 1941, a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into armed conflict with Japan. In the first three months of the war the Japanese seemed unbeatable as they seized American, British, and European territory across the Pacific: the Philippines, Sin…
A new history of the genesis of the legendary Flying Tigers.
"Mere months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a volunteer group of American airmen to the Far East, convinced that supporting Chinese resistance against the continuing Japanese invasion would be crucial to an eventual Allied victory in Worl…