The nose art, inspired by the WWII Flying Tigers, requires a detailed, multi-step painting process involving washing, sanding, masking, and applying multiple colors. -The tradition of the shark ...

When twelve combat veterans of Major General Claire Chennault’s famed Flying Tigers sank their savings into an airline in 1945, they were sold on the future of air freight. But, as one Flying ...

Gen. Claire Chennault. Chennault founded the Flying Tigers as a group of American pilots flying for China’s air force. They were later absorbed by the U.S. military when it expanded its ...

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 ...

U.S. World War II veteran Harry Moyer, right, gestures next to his compatriot Mel McMullen during a ceremony held in honor of the "Flying Tigers" at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Monday ...

The unit known as the Flying Tigers — otherwise referred to as the American Volunteer Corps — was tasked with using former military pilots to support the defense of China against Japan ...