The Original Flying Tigers 中国空军 vs 日本空军 China Air Force Vs Imperial Japan 1/2

13 Chinese-American aviators joined the native Chinese Nationalist Air Force pilots in the mid-1930's in the preparation for imminent war with Imperial Japan. Ace fighter pilots Kao Chih-hang, Liu Tsui-kang, Li Kuei-tan, Liu Che-sheng, and others are represented in this film. Chinese American pilot Arthur Chin with 7 kills to his credit is recognized as America's first ace fighter pilot of World War 2.

The Chinese have historically maintained amicable relations with the island nation later to be known as Japan; beginning according to records, with Qinshihuang's embarking of up to 3000 virgin boys and girls under the guidance of Xu Fu, the Qin Dynasty court sorcerer-Shamanist, as offering to the god(s) at Mount Penglai (Mt. Fuji) in exchange for the the Elixir of Life, only for Xu Fu and his contingent of skilled laborers and virgin children to settle in Japan (Xu Fu knew there was no Elixir of Life to be had). China's first major confrontation with Japan took place in the 13th century (1270's) during the Yuan Dynasty (waning years of Southern Song), although, it happened under the aggressive-empirical leadership the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan. China's next major confrontation with Japanese forces took place in the 16th century when Ming Dynasty troops joined forces with Korea in thwarting Japan's attempt at invading the mainland; including regular skirmishes with Japanese "wokou" pirates disrupting the sea-trade routes.

China suffered her most significant defeat under Imperial Japan's new military prowess during the Manchurian-rule of the Qing Dynasty in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895; a period where western science and technology clearly ended the long standing medieval Asian military superiority, and Japan was the only Asian nation to capitalize and make the reforms in science and industry to be on par with the aggressive western colonial powers.

China was only beginning to drag itself out of post-colonial humiliation and ruins in the late 1920's and early 1930's when Imperial Japan began its expansionist ambitions under the unclearly defined ideology of Great East Asia Co-Properity Sphere. The clips in this video (Part 1 of 2) and the following video (Part 2 of 2) is a very well-enacted historical action and drama (I edited-in mostly the action parts) show the flashpoint where the fatally courageous warriors of the Chinese Air Force pit themsleves against highly advanced, well trained, and numerically superior Japanese Naval and Army combat aviation.

The Chinese and Chinese-American pilots fought for 3 years before the Flying Tigers AVG was established in 1940. These battle honed the Japanese air forces into the world's best air combat fighting force from 1939 to 1942, and produced such top-scoring aces as Tetsuo Iwamoto (202 air to air kills), Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (120-150 air to air kills), Saburo Sakai (64 air to air kills), and etc.

Most of the events in this movie is based on actual facts and true events, however, the part where Lieutenant Shen Chong-hui "kamikaze" dived into the Imperial Japanese cruiser has been stylized and exagerrated after he was killed-in-action due to other combat circumstances. Also, Lieutenant Liu Tsui-kang is also shown to have crash-dive his plane into an enemy tank during a close-air support mission, but he has in fact died in a flying accident just as he was taking over command of the 28th Pursuit Squadron of the 3rd Pursuit Group in defense Taiyuan city region in the northern front from the injured Chinese-American fighter pilot-hero Captain Chen Chi-kuang (Chan Kee-Wong). Capt. Chan Chi-kuang lived the final years of his life in Toronto Canada.

Principal frontline aircraft used by the Chinese Air Force at the beginning of war: Curtiss Hawk II/Hawk III, Boeing B-10 bomber and P-26/281 fighter; replaced by Russian made Polikarpov I-15's and I-16's when American made aircraft were depleted, and the USA largely ignoring the events transpiring between China and Imperial Japan.

Principal frontline aircraft employed by the Imperial Japanese as seen in this film: Mitsubishi A5M fighters and G3M bombers.

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[kanntannni]

I think I've witnessed propaganda. Biplanes beating monoplanes

[WangDianshi]

@kanntannni

There are too many things which u believe is right, but ur dead wrong. WWI ace Kurt Wintgens was flying an E.IV monoplane when he got shot down and killed fighting against an S.VII biplane. The mono Japanese A5M did have higher speed/ceiling vs. the bi Chinese Hawk III you see well re-enacted here, but experience/skill will beat technology as Chinese pilots like Liu Tsui-kang, who had famously shot down an A5M before wide-eyed citizens of Nanjing on Oct. 12, 1937 proven.

[oliviathai]

good job

[WangDianshi]

@oliviathai

Thanks for kind words! This vital aspect of unfortunate history have become largely ignored; Eurocentric-history give little credence if any at all, to the story of CAF airmen (and woman: Hazel Ying Lee, apparently killed by some USAAF jock hot-doggin his plane) in war years 1937-45. We must not be deprived of our history. I believe China+Japan relations are as pop-rock group SMAP puts it at recent Beijing concert: "Come on Japan. Thank you China. Asia is a united home!"

[TheJunfong]

@milvipes ya



[milvipes]

@TheJunfong Well the Allies may have won the strategic victory, but they've lost FAR more men & resources than the Axis. Had the US entered the war a year early, Allied casualty might have been halved.

[TheJunfong]

@milvipes fuck

japan was with germany and italy in sep 1940

[TheJunfong]

nice

[MingDynasty700]

小時看過，敢問片名？

[m1rock]

@milvipes We didnt wanna fight in another worthless World War like you idiots started in 1914.