Eighty years ago this week, a small group of American aviators fought in their first battle in World War II. Their mission was unusual: They were mercenaries hired by China to fight against Japan.

A one-year contract to live and work in China, flying, repairing and making airplanes. Pay is as much as $16,725 a month with 30 days off a year. Housing is included, and you’ll get an extra $700 a ...

RANGOON, BURMA September 6, 1941 DEAR MA AND PA: — Last Saturday the Group commander, Colonel Chennault, got the bad dope that twelve pilots were wanted in Rangoon to ferry some new planes up here. We ...

The Flying Tigers were one of the first American air units to fight the Japanese as World War II began. A gruff Texas native, Claire Chennault, organized the volunteer force in the months before the ...

In 2005, 15 former pilots from the "Flying Tigers", the nickname of the American Volunteer Group, visited the Nanjing Anti-Japanese Aviation Memorial Hall to lay wreathes and honor their fallen ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Oct 11 (Reuters) - David Lee "Tex" Hill, who flew with the Flying Tigers in China during World War Two and was said to be the inspiration for John Wayne's character in a 1942 movie ...

Jim Gordon is the head of a group of American pilots working for the Chinese government against the invading Japanese two years prior to Pearl Harbor. Hothead Woody Jason joins them, but he's also a ...