One hundred pilots and 200 technicians were recruited as “volunteers” for the Chinese Air Force. Their mission: to help defeat the Japanese. They were dubbed “The Flying Tigers.”
CCTV’s Roee Ruttenberg filed the story.
More details:
- Under Japanese occupation in the 1930s, the Chinese endured relentless aerial bombardment by Japan.
- As China’s chief air adviser, American Claire Lee went back to Washington to lobby for help. The result: covert American support for the Chinese military-including money, material, and men.