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Following is a complete list of American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers) pilots. [1] [2] The AVG was operational from December 20, 1941, to July 14, 1942.The press continued to apply the Flying Tigers name to later units, but pilots of those organizations are not included.
A Flying Tigers Memorial is located in the village of Zhijiang, Hunan Province, China and there is a museum dedicated exclusively to the Flying Tigers. The building is a steel and marble structure, with wide sweeping steps leading up to a platform with columns holding up the memorial's sweeping roof; on its back wall, etched in black marble ...
Pages in category "Flying Tigers pilots" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
This category is for the original Flying Tigers, active from December 20, 1940, to July 4, 1941, not for any later units which took the same nickname. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The Lockheed Hudson (seen in RAF use) was an American-built light bomber and coastal reconnaissance aircraft. In the fall of 1941, the 2nd American Volunteer Group was equipped with 33 Lockheed Hudson (A-28) and 33 Douglas DB-7 (A-20) bombers originally built for Britain but acquired by the U.S. Army as part of the Lend-Lease program passed earlier in the year.
The Flying Tigers began as a volunteer force founded by retired U.S. Army aviator Claire Lee Chennault, who was hired in 1937 to do a survey of the Chinese military.
37th Flying Training Squadron: Bengal Tigers [656] Air Education and Training Command: Nineteenth Air Force: 14 FTW: 15 January 1941 Columbus AFB, Mississippi [657] T-6A [658] CB: 39th Flying Training Squadron: Air Force Reserve Command: Twenty-Second Air Force: 340 FTG: 1 February 1940 JB San Antonio, Texas [659] T-1A [660] T-6 [660] T-38 [660 ...
The 3rd Battalion, 229th Aviation Regiment, nicknamed the Flying Tigers, was an attack helicopter battalion operating AH-64 Apache attack and OH-58 Kiowa scout helicopters and a Headquarters detachment of UH-60 Blackhawks. Each of the 3 line companies (A, B, and C) contained 6 Apache and 4 Kiowa helicopters.