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Kunming #8 Middle School, Kunming, ChinaJane Zhao 赵坚 , 10th Grade English

Outline

How did the Flying Tigers come into being

Flying Tigers’ planes

The founder of Flying Tigers and his wife

Flying Tigers in Yunnan

Seventy years ago, Japanese army invaded into the three provinces in northeast China, starting . Sixty years ago, a group of American young pilots called the American Volunteer Group

came to China, and together with the Chinese people, they fought against the Japanese invaders and contributed greatly to

the final victory of the war. Under the leadership of General Chennault, a retired Lieutenant Colonel, these young men

fought so bravely that they won the awesome name of "Flying Tigers", as well as the respect of the Chinese people.

Flying Tigers came into being

The 1st American Volunteer Group (AVG) of the Chinese Air Force in 1941–1942, famously

nicknamed the Flying Tigers

The Flying Tigers’ Wings

P40 Warhawk painted with Flying Tigers shark face

The AVG was largely the creation of

Claire Lee Chennault (September 6, 1893 – July 27, 1958), a retired U.S. Army Air Corps officer who had worked in China since August 1937

Founder

Chennault and his wife Chen Xiangmei

Anna Chennault, (Chinese name Chen Xiangmei , also known as Anna Chan

Chennault/Anna Chen Chennault) is the widow of World War II aviation hero Lieutenant

General Claire Lee Chennault.

In southwest China's Yunnan Province, the Flying Tigers greatly supported the Chinese

airforce which had virtually no combat capacity before their coming. In the

following seven months, they shot down about 300 Japanese planes, with a loss of

only 73.

Flying Tigers in Yunnan

Repairing Plane

Take off

A river near Yunnan ShuifuA river near Yunnan Shuifu

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