Join The Museum of Flight on Sept. 13 for the premiere of Their Memory Lives, a documentary about the WWII Flying Tigers, with a Q&A featuring filmmakers and descendants of the AVG pilots.

Captain Claire Chennault at the Air Corps Tactical School, Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL, in 1932. [Courtesy: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force] The Flying Tigers (AVG), a volunteer group of ...

Eighty years ago this week, 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.

In December 1941, the American Volunteer Group (AVG), also known as the Flying Tigers, comprised of American volunteer pilots, began fighting against Japanese bombers in China. The Flying Tigers ...