Ep. 152 | The Flying Tigers (Part 2)
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Laszlo finishes off the CHP overview of the story of the AVG in World War II. In this episode, the battle commences on December 20, 1941. From that point forward until the organization was disbanded on July 4, 1942, the Flying Tigers wrote their name into the history books.
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| 0:53.0 | Greetings everyone, Lhasa Montgomery here, bringing you part two of our CHP overview of the |
| 0:59.6 | American Volunteer Group, better known by many as the Flying Tigers. and this cake in two equal halves but the CHP planning department really messed up on this one. |
| 1:14.7 | Hope you don't mind. |
| 1:16.7 | Last episode in part one, we discussed how Jiang Kaishek had appointed his wife, |
| 1:21.6 | Songmealing, someone he knew he could trust, to manage the project |
| 1:26.6 | of building an Air Force for China. |
| 1:29.2 | She also had a lot of connections in D.C. thanks to her illustrious brother, TV song, Japan had been |
| 1:37.8 | slamming China mercilessly from the air since 1937, and although there were attempts to the to counter this, the powers that be in Chong Ching began scrambling for a solution. |
| 1:56.1 | Jiang's brother-in-law, TV Song, was able to use his influential friends in Washington, D.C. to convince Franklin Delano Roosevelt, even before |
| 2:06.0 | Pearl Harbor, to give the okay to use Claire Schenalt is essentially a cutout to put together an all-American outfit that could get around |
| 2:16.2 | U.S. neutrality and make a contribution to halting the progress of the Japanese and China. |
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