Editor's Note
The Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group (AVG) led by General Claire Chennault, harassed the Japanese forces from the air from August 1941 to July 1942. The pilots, all former members of the US Army Air, Navy or Marine Corps, participated in more than 100 battles, shooting down 272 Japanese aircraft and destroying another 225 on the ground. The main equipment of the Flying Tigers was the Hawk-81A2 (P-40c) fighter aircraft from a Curtiss assembly line. The group left China in 1944.
'Flying Tigers' members attend peace festival in Central China
The fifth China Zhijiang International Peace and Culture Festival began on Saturday in Zhijiang Dong Autonomous County in Hunan Province, Central China.
The Flying Tigers, American fighter regiment in China
Between August 1941 and July 1942, the Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group (AVG) led by General Claire Chennault, harassed the Japanese forces from the air.
Memory of Flying Tigers honored in South China
The American Volunteer Group has legendary status in China, and the US pilots who flew as members of the Chinese air force have now been honored in the town that was their main center of operations.
US exhibit commemorates Flying Tigers
A US exhibition on Yunnan province and the Flying Tigers provides a boost to cultural exchanges between China and the United States, and it helps people remember the days when US volunteers helped China fight the Japanese invaders, a senior official of the Chinese consulate general in New York said on Sunday.
Remembering Flying Tigers war heroes
Chongqing Economic Times revealed little-known stories about the "Flying Tigers", an American air force fleet that helped China fight Japan's invasion during World War II.
Answer to balance lies in wartime spirit
“Seventy-four years ago, the United States and China became allies in the common cause against aggression.”
The great escape
The dramatic story of how Chinese guerillas rescued Donald Kerr, a young US pilot shot down over wartime Hong Kong, will soon be released as a movie. Zhao Xu met with Kerr's son to hear about his father's dangerous journey home.
Nanjing exhibition in memory of the past
Nezhdanov, the first pilot from the Soviet Union air squadron who sacrificed his life in China, died at the age of 24 in the battle against the Japanese army in Nanjing on Nov 22, 1937. He was a hero who shot down Japanese invaders' aircraft and fought on this land.
Flying Tigers a symbol of friendship, then and now
Fighter planes roared above Yangtang village, weaving and diving in a deadly dance, filling the evening sky with the staccato cough of machine-gun fire.
Japanese WWII surrender video debuted at China museum
A museum in Central China's Hunan province reopened after renovation and debuted video footage documenting Japan's surrender in the province.
Flying Tigers show in New York
An exhibition about beautiful Yunnan and the Flying Tigers provides a boost to cultural exchange between China and America, and helps us remember the days when American volunteers helped China flight the Japanese invaders, said a senior official of the Chinese Consulate General in New York on Sunday.
Flying Tiger nurse honored
A book Piloted to Serve, co-authored by Deborah Chung and her mother Rebecca Chan who had served as a nurse for the Flying Tigers, was unveiled in Houston.
US pilot is remembered in book and documentary
A documentary and a book in Chinese recounting the exploits of a US fighter pilot who parachuted to safety in Hong Kong after shooting down a Japanese warplane during World War II will ensure that his heroic deeds are not lost to posterity.
WWII Flying Tigers want to see history respected
As the tension between China and Japan deepens, US soldiers who fought in the World War II who were members of the Flying Tigers, shared their stories and called for respect for history and peace.
Wartime American fighter found in E China
Fishermen brought up the wreckage of an American fighter during World War II, attracting people from the village, Wangjiang county, East China's Anhui province, Oct 21, 2013.
Book fair features Superfortress author
In 1999, Li Xiaowei learned about the US 20th Air Force's existence in Sichuan province, China, during World War II. Now, 16 years later, Li is scheduled to be at the 2015 BookEpo America in New York on Friday to sign copies of his book, Superfortress: Anti-Japanese History of US 20th Air Force with Chinese People.
Meeting the Flying Tigers in Xi'an
Whenever Chinese people celebrated Anti-Japanese War victory in August, Zhang Tianzhu would recall his encounter with two pilots of Flying Tigers and hoped to meet them again.
Chinese villagers helped save US pilots during WWII
Chinese residents helped the American pilots selflessly after realizing they were friends, not enemies and left many moving stories worth telling.
'Flying Tigers' Exhibition held in Los Angeles
A cultural exhibition named "Welcome Home, Flying Tigers" is held here in order to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Chinese people's Anti-Japanese War and the World Anti-Fascist War.
China's last 'Flying Tiger' dies at 91
The last Flying Tiger pilot in China died of lung failure at 91 at a hospital in southwest China early Wednesday.
Former Flying Tigers pilot, 91, critically ill
Long Qiming, 91, the only Flying Tigers pilot still alive on the Chinese mainland, was hospitalized in July with a serious lung infection, according to doctors at No 1 Hospital affi liated with Chongqing University of Medical Science.