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MISSIONS THAT CHANGED THE WAR: The Flying Tigers Part 3.
Narrated by Gary Sinise.
In China’s most desperate hour, Chiang Kai-Shek turns to the United States for help. The Japanese are bombing Chinese population centers mercilessly. China’s decimated air force is powerless to stop them. Chiang dispatches his American consultant - former U.S. Army Air Corps officer Claire L. Chennault - to obtain the airplanes and pilots needed to defend China. Tex Hill resigns his Navy Commission and volunteers.
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.
They were called the American Volunteer Group and later became known as the Flying Tigers. Though only in combat for less than seven months, the group became famous at the time for its ability to inflict outsize damage on Japan's better-equipped and larger aircraft fleet.
Their victories came when Japan seemed unstoppable. The AVG was a bright spot in history when everything was bleak and black, and they have received a lot of recognition for that.
In the West, 1939 is considered the start of World War II. But in Asia, China and Japan had been at war since 1937.
China was already fighting its own civil war between the Nationalists of Chiang Kai-shek and Communist forces. The two sides came to a truce to fight against the Japanese. China, however, had little air power to fend off Japanese bombings.
Enter Claire Lee Chennault, a U.S. Army aviator, instructor and tactician, once described by Time magazine as "lean, hard-bitten, taciturn." Health problems and disputes with his superiors pushed him into retirement from his position with the Army Air Corps in 1937, at age 43.
But he quickly got a lucrative job offer with the Chinese Air Force, which was operating under Chiang's Nationalist government. Chennault was asked to come survey the readiness of its fleet.
"Chiang Kai-shek thought he had 500 airplanes," says Nell Chennault Calloway, who is Chennault's granddaughter and CEO of the Chennault Aviation & Military Museum in Monroe, La. "Chennault said, 'You have 500, but you only have 91 that fly.' That's how far behind they were in aviation."
Once the war with Japan officially broke out that summer, China hired Chennault as an adviser to its air force. He became its de facto commander.
Claire Lee Chennault first went to China to survey the Chinese Air Force's readiness, and stayed on to lead the creation of the American Volunteer Group.
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By 1940, after losing backing from the Soviets, China desperately needed more planes. At the time, the U.S. was not officially part of World War II. But President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was concerned about the prospect of Japan defeating China and turning its sights on the U.S.
Chennault traveled back to the U.S., pulling what strings he could to get planes. With the help of T.V. Soong, a Chinese official who was also Chiang's brother-in-law, a deal was worked out to allow China to buy 100 American-made Curtiss P-40 fighter planes.
As for who would fly and maintain them, many of the pilots in China's existing air force were poorly trained. So Chennault sent recruiters to U.S. military bases.
"He managed to get Roosevelt to allow some of our military pilots - that was the original AVG - to resign their commissions in the U.S. military and go to China as mercenaries, basically, because it was against the international rules for any American military person to be involved in the conflict over there,".
This was mid-1941 - before Pearl Harbor and before the U.S. declared war on Japan.
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"By using Chinese funds to buy the aircraft and supplies and pay the salaries of the proposed crews, the U.S. government could retain a façade of neutrality, while helping China against the Japanese," the Department of Defense's history of the Flying Tigers explained.
To make recruitment easier, pilots and mechanics were offered pay that was often more than double what they were making before.
So in summer and fall of 1941, 99 pilots - 59 from the Navy, seven Marines, and 33 from the Army - traveled to Asia, along with about 200 support crew, according to the DOD's history. About a dozen of them were Chinese Americans, says Yue-him Tam, a Macalester College history professor who studies China and Japan.
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My father flew under Tex Hill as a pilot in the 75th Fighter Squadron. Among other Flying Tigers, I had thye honor of meeting Tex Hill at the reunion at Pope AFB in 1999. The description of my father's belly landing after getting all shot up is described by lifelong friend and fighter ace, Don Lopez book "Into the Teeth of the Tiger". I brought Dad's shot up parachute to the reunion where it was displayed and signed by all the pilots, including Tex and Johnny Alison. Quite the memorable experience for sure
I read " God is my Copilot" when I was young and was glad to see some of the rest of the story.
Thanks for getting this on record, 2022 saw the very last avg tigers pass on... only this record is left
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Well done series 😁
Thank you! ❤❤🙏
THIS IS A VERY GOOD STORY THANKS FOR THE HISTORY .
Thank you for watching. More great stories coming soon! ❤🙏
Now I know where Stephen Cannel came up with the line about TJ Wiley becoming a Japanese Ace!!!🤣
Beautiful boys
Ding Hao!
My heros have always been ww2 veterans......but cowboys are alright too.
Col Boyington said it best in his book, Give me a hero and I'll prove he's a bum
This is an amazing series. However, it seems to me that it begs for a Part 4. Part 3 seems to leave us "up in the air" about what came next.
There is a part 4. I just found it.
There is a part 4. I found it.
@@peterdrescher4488 Yes, and I just watched it.
Ty mr Sinesr. Can u recommend a book on the topic, more in-depth than the usual light skim of facts with a ladle of photos?
Salute ！！
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Insofar as the time period that it covers this is probably the more complete of the documentaries on the AVG that I've seen. While I'll agree with a couple of other comments that it should have a fourth episode to cover the following years with the USAAF, I understand it's concept to make the legacy of it's origin more complete. And it's real with the survival fight of it's Burma Group well told, losses and all. Kudos as well to the documentary's producers for the mentions of our British Allies contributions in the Burma aerial campaign.
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The largely unknown role of the Ki43 "Oscar" as the Japanese fighter with the most allied aircraft shoot-downs is also mentioned here. It was the Army Ki43 that was more likely encountered by my Dad's parafrag A20 Bomb Group, the 90th Attack Squadron ("Grim Reapers"), 3rd Bomb Group, 5th USAAF.
Japanese IJA Ace Yohei HInoki called the original variant of the Ki43 a "disaster" but said that with modifications it eventually became a very useful weapon at least in the first year and a half of the war. And also mentioned are the AVG's examples of it's mistaken identification as an A6M Zero / "Zeke" which was widespread among all Allied combat Airmen throughout the Pacific War.
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My favorite WW2 fighter. Not the fastest. Not the most manuverable. But plenty of firepower and good durability. And classically American.
Good looking, too. As Burt Gummer once said, "Just doing the best I can with what I've got."
The P-40's ruggedness saved many a pilot's life including that of my father's. He was shot down over Hengyang and made a belly landing. Good thing for him since his chute took a 20mm incendiary round.
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Lovely plane!
How do we get more mission statistics? We need more videos!!!!! Please. I’ve read all the books but they don’t go into detail. Chennault was fighting the BoB with no supplies or country behind him.
My great uncle John B. Alison few with Tex Hill china. The airport in Gainesville, Florida is named after Uncle John.
bless him!
My Uncle was killed in the Pacific when His P-40 crashed.
I remember that two of those groups were called the Adam and Eves and the Hell's Angels. What was the name of the third???
2nd Squadron “Panda Bears”
I am a Flying Tiger from the 74 th f 16 93 to 96
Honored! 🙂❤
A-10?
My Dad trained Chinese Mountain Troops with the 105 pack howerd He And sereral other GI would take 7 or 8 gun crews with guns broke down and put on pack mule’s up in the hills and teach the crews how to put them togather. Hy said that when they came down 4or 5 would thank their guns and mules and desert to the other side. Their were GI training Inf also. He said at times he didn’t know were he was. Cihna or Burma. I saw a certificate from The Chinese gov signed by(sp) Shine hi sheik)
My Dad Retired in early 60 Asked why he retired when he did He said he saw Vietnam coming and he had spent so much time in the area and he didn’t want to go back. Dad spent time in China Burma and Korea
The shark mouth was copied from Australian p40s in the middle east, in turn copied from a German bomber. Reguardless, of origin, the p40 I variants really suits the menacingly eye and vicious scowl more than any other plane.
We saved China's ass in WWII & now their giving us a hard time.
They are remembered, though. There is UA-cam channel called "The Fighter Broadcast", I think. A retired USAF general recounted a visit to an American base by several Chinese generals in the 80s. They were at first stone-faced and taciturn. Then they were introduced, through the base museum, to an old AVG pilot. Then out came the grins. And the drinking! And everyone got thoroughly soused. There are some in China who still remember.
The government that was saved in WW2 was exiled to the island of Taiwan in 1949. Quite friendly with the USA.
WW2 starts September 14.1931. Just north of North Korea.. in the next weeks.. months the Japanese Imperial Army... literally destroyed cities in east China and murdered its population... then March 9.1933.
真珠湾の前に、ゼロ戦は中国でアメリカのFLYING TIGERSと戦っていました。日本とアメリカは戦っていたのです。ハワイ真珠湾攻撃の前に、