1. Trillium Learning Global 21 st Century Schools Project Kunming #8 Middle School, Kunming, China Jane Zhao 赵坚, 10 th Grade English

2. Outline How did the Flying Tigers come into being Flying Tigers’ planes The founder of Flying Tigers and his wife Flying Tigers in Yunnan

3. Seventy years ago, Japanese army invaded into the three provinces in northeast China, starting. Sixty years ago, a group of American young pilots called the American Volunteer Group came to China, and together with the Chinese people, they fought against the Japanese invaders and contributed greatly to the final victory of the war. Under the leadership of General Chennault, a retired Lieutenant Colonel, these young men fought so bravely that they won the awesome name of "Flying Tigers", as well as the respect of the Chinese people. Flying Tigers came into being

4. The 1st American Volunteer Group (AVG) of the Chinese Air Force in 1941–1942, famously nicknamed the Flying Tigers

5. The Flying Tigers’ Wings

7. P40 Warhawk painted with Flying Tigers shark face

8. The AVG was largely the creation of Claire Lee Chennault (September 6, 1893 – July 27, 1958), a retired U.S. Army Air Corps officer who had worked in China since August 1937 Founder

9. Chennault and his wife Chen Xiangmei

10. Anna Chennault, (Chinese name Chen Xiangmei, also known as Anna Chan Chennault/Anna Chen Chennault) is the widow of World War II aviation hero Lieutenant General Claire Lee Chennault.

12. In southwest China's Yunnan Province, the Flying Tigers greatly supported the Chinese airforce which had virtually no combat capacity before their coming. In the following seven months, they shot down about 300 Japanese planes, with a loss of only 73. Flying Tigers in Yunnan

13. Repairing Plane Take off

17. A river near Yunnan Shuifu

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