which holds special significance as China's national emblem was also of a tiger. The Flying Tigers wouldn't see combat until ...

The two squadrons flew side by side, in fighter planes emblazoned with the gaping tiger’s teeth logo. After Pearl Harbor, the Flying Tigers became an effective squadron in the U.S. Air Force.

The nickname stemmed from the flying tiger emblem that Walt Disney Studios had created for the volunteer airmen two months earlier, and it is how they have been known ever since the Time report.

Early March 1942: a squadron of Curtiss-Wright P-40 Warhawk pursuit fighter planes rips across the vast blue skies of the Burma-Yunnan border. The roar is immense, but there are few to hear it ...

Original Caption - A Chinese soldier guards a line of American P-40 fighter planes, painted with the shark-face emblem of the "Flying Tigers," at a flying field somewhere in China. The American ...

Nearly 100 attendees from China and the U.S. gathered for the commemoration, including a delegation of Flying Tigers veterans and their descendants brought together by the Sino-American Aviation ...

BEIJING — Eight decades after he first came to China, as a U.S. fighter pilot defending against Japanese forces, Harry Moyer is back in the country on a very different mission. Moyer, 103, whose ...

Although the Flying Tigers are most strongly associated ... However, the nickname also stems from their official emblem depicting a tiger, which holds special significance as China's national ...