The Flying Tigers
by Samuel M. Kleiner · first published 2018
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"The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation's desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific. Sam Kleiner's Flying Tigers tells the story of the group young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending the embattled forces of Chiang Kai-Shek's China. These 300 individuals were effectively paid mercenaries, secretly recruited by a mysterious shell company that the federal government had created to circumvent its off
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on “Ask HN: Best books you read in 2023” ↗r.e. 'The Flying Tigers', my high school library had a copy of 'Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault' that I read multiple times. Might be worth checking out.
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