World War II’s legendary American Volunteer Group, the “Flying Tigers,” made the shark mouth famous, but they weren’t the first to paint it on airplanes. During World War I, a few German ...

He recruited pilots from wherever he could find them, trained them, and used whatever planes ... the Flying Tigers and Chennault starting in 2005 to mark the end of World War II in China, while ...

Though disbanded in July 1942 after only eight months of combat, the Flying Tigers destroyed 296 Japanese aircraft in China and present-day Myanmar. A few pilots ended up joining a regular Army ...