Dogfights: Flying Tigers Slash Through Chinese Skies (S1, E3) | Full Episode | History

And now the ene­my are ones that we should have Known would have hap­pened even­tu­al­ly, Strap in Boys! It ain’t ever over. It ain’t ever over. Friends always become ene­mies, maybe we should have kept them clos­er! Must be Nixons fault.

Proof that the Chi­nese couldn’t (and like­ly still can’t) fight their own wars.

It’s a shame this show end­ed after two sea­sons. They should have done an episode cen­tered on the Eagle Squadrons dur­ing the Bat­tle of Britain

The shat­tered hulks of many Japan­ese Bombers lay in the jun­gles of China.

Ah these were the days I always looked for­ward to after class

in all the videos some one is going the HERE and some­one else is going to be HERE

His­to­ry from the his­to­ry channel !!!!!

Fear the Fly­ing Tigers!

I got to met an ex Fly­ing Tiger here in So Cal.

1240 loco­mo­tives destroyed.… how count the Japan­ese con­tin­ue sup­ply­ing oper­a­tions in that area? Replaced a sin­gle
loco­mo­tive must take a large amount of met­al need­ed for new air­crafts.
eyal

In some ways the ear­ly P‑40B Tom­a­hawk was the best of the P‑40 series. The P‑40B was the fastest, at about 367 mph clean. Fol­low­ing P‑40 marks were suc­ces­sive­ly slow­er until the slow­est speed of 342 mph. In ear­ly 1942 the P‑40B was much faster than the A6M2 top speed of 331 mph. The P‑40B pos­sessed armor pro­tec­tion for the pilot and self-seal­ing fuel tanks, which the Zero-sen lacked. P‑40B arma­ment com­prised two, M2 Brown­ing .50 cal­iber heavy machine guns in the nose cowl­ing and four, .30 cal­iber machine guns, two apiece in each wing. P‑40B pilots at the time felt their arma­ment was quite suf­fi­cient for down­ing both Japan­ese fight­er planes and bombers. Japan­ese bombers were typ­i­cal­ly two-engine designs, more of the light bomber cat­e­go­ry even though the Japan­ese type clas­si­fied them as medi­um bombers. Lack­ing any armor pro­tec­tion and worse, no self-seal­ing fuel tanks, Japan­ese bombers were easy prey for any ene­my fight­er planes.

FEI HU?😳

Jman

11:02 So sad…a major in the AIR FORCE with no wings…must be lonely.…sorry bro…

The fly­ing tigers we’re only part of the U.S. army.

so „„„, if they had the sharks mouth , then how­come the tigers?

Walt Dis­ney, a well-known anti­se­mit­ic cre­at­ed the logo for the tigers.

I was won­der­ing if any­one would be inter­est­ed in see­ing per­son­al video footage that I have been giv­en per­mis­sion to share, if the time ever came, from a man named Jim ‘long­burst’ Dumas. Major Dumas, from his account, was the first uni­formed pilot to fly with the AVG. In his video, and I have pic­tures of him also, stand­ing next to his P40, named after his wife at the time ‘Peg­gy’.
Jim told me that Claire Lee Chen­nault gave him that nick­name, ‘Long­burst’.
I believe he wrote how he got it in his book, and this video that he per­son­al­ly took back then, did not have audio, how­ev­er he spoke an over­dub.
I’ll try to remem­ber as close as I can, but basi­cal­ly major Dumas was involved in a dog fight, quite lit­er­al­ly over the air base, and the Gen­er­al was able to wit­ness the gun­fire. In the debrief­ing room, the Gen­er­al asked basi­cal­ly, who was fir­ing the long bursts up above, Major Dumas rose his hand. There­fore the nick­name.
I could be off a lit­tle bit, but I don’t think I’m too far off from what he told me, and I’m sure he wrote about it in his book, any­how…
I was for­tu­nate to be a friend of his, he allowed me to trans­fer video tape to DVD.
The video is of numer­ous clips, some of the guys are brush­ing your teeth, some of the guys are goof­ing around, some sit­u­a­tions it looks like they are in close to full pilot gear, at least wear­ing their leathers, and look­ing up toward the sky, I believe they were get­ting ready to go out on mis­sions or what­not…
Any­how I just thought I would Google and see what came up and leave this mes­sage.
Maybe peo­ple will be able to iden­ti­fy who the men are, and the fam­i­ly mem­bers could get a copy of what I have.
Sor­ry for the long post, just giv­ing this a shot.

“Left the Navy to vol­un­teer…” he means, he left the Navy to triple his paycheck…

Ace pilots would set there machine guns to cress cross the bul­lets. Know there they come togath­er and know­ing where they spread. Mak­ing less ammo used, Plus a tight kill and a wide spread kill

I loved watch­ing these HIS­TO­RY-relat­ed on shows on the HISTORY chan­nel. Now all they have is real­i­ty shows.

Ki is pro­nounced KEY. Japan­ese for airframe.

The P‑40 just looks cool from every angle, even with­out the paint scheme. A real­ly aes­thet­i­cal­ly pleas­ing design. Wings, tail both real­ly neat­ly shaped and that beau­ti­ful­ly pointy nosecone all just make it look fast and fierce even parked on the ground. The guys at Cur­tiss were air­craft artists.

Can any­one tell me if any of these brave men are still alive?? Pilots, crew, etc.??