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Language
English
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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...
Publisher
Republic Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Two World War II films featuring John Wayne. Sands of Iwo Jima: A tough Marine sergeant turns raw recruits into fighting men during World War II in the Pacific; Flying Tigers: Heroic story of American airmen fighting the Japanese over China in early World War II.
Author
Publisher
ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"On December 7, 1941, a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into armed conflict with Japan. In the first three months of the war the Japanese seemed unbeatable as they seized American, British, and European territory across the Pacific: the Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Dutch East Indies. Nonetheless, in those dark days, the U.S. press began to pick up reports about a group of American mercenaries who were bringing...
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