THE FLYING TIGERS (PT 2)

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Part two-Led by Claire Chennault, the Flying Tigers were a group of American pilots who originally signed as mercenaries for China in 1941 to fight Japanese aggression in China and Burma. Chennault had worked to build China's air force since 1937 when the Japanese invaded China and seized Shanghai and Nanking, but finally received help from FDR in 1941 in the form of planes and pilots. Chennault had the answer for the fast Japanese Zero plane- but it would take training and discipline to make sure his men learned it. When they did, it provided the first good news since the invasion of Pearl Harbor and listed American and Chinese morale. Voices AVG Cols Tex Hikk, Ed Rector, Dick Rossi. East Asia Media. YOUR REVIEWS AT APPLE/ITUNES ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Copy and Paste the highlighted links to your Apple or Android Devices for free listening: APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 HEROES now at Apple iTunesPodcast App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622?mt=2 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901?mt=2 ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id381734?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1114843?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The News of the Far East I return you now to
0:30.7	In Burma, the American volunteer flyers who have been defending raggloom without
0:35.2	standing success against the Japanese Air Force shifted to the attack today. They
0:39.9	raided a Japanese Air Base in the more mine region, one American was lost, but
0:44.3	that's only the second casualty in seven days of fighting during which the
0:47.4	Americans have downed 50 Japanese planes. In Burma, RAF bombers in American
0:54.4	fighter planes smashed to the Japanese base of Paan and the Salween River. Allied
0:58.6	flyers also shut down between 10 and 22 Japanese planes attacking the airport
1:03.4	at Rangoon without a single loss of their own. Now John daily reports further
1:09.6	news from the Far East so I return you to New York. American and British flyers
1:13.6	have shut down between 27 and 34 enemy planes in the Rangoon area and have
1:18.2	destroyed 34 more in air battles over Thailand.
1:23.4	At dawn on Wednesday, two of those planes made surprise attacks on Japanese
1:28.4	airfield at Moonman and south of Moonman. They set on fire nine Japanese
1:34.4	pursuits, four bombers and two transport planes. I talk about 15 and return
1:39.8	safely to their base.
1:41.6	I return you now to Columbia in New York.
1:47.6	By March 1st 1942, the flying tigers had destroyed nearly 300 enemy planes.
1:54.6	They had lost a total of seven pilots. Hello everyone and welcome back to
2:00.8	1,000 one heroes, legends, histories and mysteries and part two of the
2:06.9	flying tigers. The story of a group of American fighter pilots who
2:11.0	battled the Japanese in the skies over Burma and China between 1941 and 1945.
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