By Becky Purser bpurser@macon.com Updated September 23, 2016 9:24 AM WARNER ROBINS Each member of a reunion group visiting the Museum of Aviation on Thursday probably had a Flying Tigers story.

W hen twelve combat veterans of Major General Claire Chennault’s famed Flying Tigers sank their savings into an airline in 1945, they were sold on the future of air freight. But, as one Flying ...

The Flying Tigers began with 100 P-40 aircraft supplied by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation’s plant in Buffalo, New York. “They had to be taken from the plant down to Brooklyn and put aboard ...

The families of soldiers lost while taking part in a secret US mission during the Vietnam War have long wanted their relatives’ names included on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.

The ‘Flying Tigers’ were critical to America’s success in the early years of WWII, but the full story of their bravery has gone untold for decades.

The Flying Tigers' first combat came on Dec. 20, 1941 — 13 days after Pearl Harbor and 12 days after the U.S. declared war on Japan. Japanese bombers attacked the AVG base at Kunming.

The Flying Tigers. First rate American pilots who in search of adventure went to help the Chinese break Japanese air superiority. Under the command of Claire Lee Chennault they were one of the ...

Built in 1960, the plane dubbed the “flying tiger” is the last of a group of KC-135 model of Stratotanks that was attached to the 108th Refueling Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard at ...

It couldn’t do so for long, so Garrett reversed the feather on no. 2. The props realigned, and Flying Tiger 923 was back to two engines; thankfully, one on each wing.

Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 was scheduled to make four refueling stops between the Bay Area and Saigon: Honolulu, Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines. The first leg took the usual 12 hours.