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

Chinese Air Force Anthem(s) at the end of this movie preview. Years before the Flying Tigers - American Volunteer Group, the original American Volunteer Group consisting of 13 Chinese-American aviators joined their native Chinese Air Force counterparts in the mid-1930's in the preparation for imminent war with Imperial Japan. Ace fighter pilots Kao Chih-hang, Liu Tsui-kang, Arthur Chin, Li Kuei-tan, John "Buffalo" Wong, Liu Che-sheng, Le Yiqin, Lu Jichun, Chen Huamin have 54 confirmed kills between them.

China's principle fighter aircraft at the time was the locally manufactured Curtiss Hawk III and Boeing P-26C-281. These were slightly less performance than the Imperial Japanese Navy's Mitsubishi A5M Claudes (predecessor of the infamous Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen Fighter aircraft) and the Imperial Army's Nakajima Ki-27, but the Chinese aircraft were significantly more rugged. This was important for the Chinese pilots, as any Chinese pilot observed escaping combat are subject to the death penalty by firing squad, unlike the British/western pilots, whom only face court-martial. Later pilots of the AVG Flying Tigers had the benefit of even more rugged and armoured Curtis P-40 Warhawks heavily armed with six 50-caliber machine guns and permission to use only high-speed hit and run tactics against the nimble Imperial Japanese fighters, as dog-fights against the lighter-weight Japanese fighter aircraft oftenly proved fatal.

The clips in this video (Part 2 of 2) is a very well-enacted historical action and drama, and show the fatally courageous warriors of the Chinese Air Force pit themselves against highly advanced, well trained, and numerically superior Japanese Naval and Army combat aviation. In fact, the Chinese Air Force had the most difficult defense duty of any airforce, having to cover a tremendous area of 1.5 million square miles against well-established land, sea, and air targets with no more than 250-300 operational aircrat at any one time. The Chinese Air Force was spread thin, and the attrition rate was high. The Chinese and Chinese-American pilots battle-engagments with the Japanese, particularly the Imperial Naval Aviation units, helped hone the Japanese Naval Air pilots and their technology into the world's best air combat fighting force from 1939 to 1942, and that was a very rude awakening for the American, British, and Dutch forces at the time following the Pearl Harbor attack.

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 his plane into an Imperial Japanese cruiser has been stylized and exagerrated after he was killed-in-action due to other combat circumstances. Also, Lieutenant Liu Tsui-kang, known as "China's Red Baron", is portrayed 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 when he took over command of a squadron in Taiyuan city in the northern front.

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[vawlkee51]

I see every post I make is erased! Thanks for nothing!

[WangDianshi]

@vawlkee51 =

If this is fiction, then the Pearl Harbor bombing was a fabricated story. But I'm interested in truth. You may use your other propaganda accounts and promote your krappy brand of history, but if your honest and truthful, without ulterior motives, then the message stays.

[Clay93145]

日本人對上美國空軍只有死一條路而已

[WangDianshi]

@Clay93145

That's not true, the Japanese fighter pilots had in fact inflicted great losses against American and Allied airpower from 1940-45: of Saburo Sakai's 60+ aerial kills, most were against American pilots; of Hiroyoshi Nishizawa's 130+ aerial kills, almost all were against American fighters; of Tesuzo Iwamoto's 180+kills, 14 were against Chinese fighters, and almost all the rest were against American fighters; both Saburo Sakai and Tetsuzo Iwamoto survived the war.

[SEIB701]

零戦の初陣ってたしか一機も撃墜されてないよな？

[Kagetora2010]

Now if we could just get somebody to retell this tale using modern CGI technology and know-how along with a closer dedication to the actual historical events depicted... the Polikarpov I-16 was a little stinker to have to face in a "Nate" or "Claude" if the pilot knew what he was doing...

[Kagetora2010]

@WangDianshi And overclaiming by fighter pilots was rife on both sides. That said, there is no denying that the Western Allies took an absolute beating in the air from the IJNAF and IJAAF fighter pilots during the first year of the war, especially when flying obsolete aircraft like the Brewster F2A. Allied pilots also initially lacked the combat experience of their Japanese opponents and paid for it accordingly.

[starguard]

I had learned before that the very first american fighter pilots to die in WWII were Chinese American volunteers. This is a part of American History that should be told and not forgotten

[Clay93145]

@WangDianshi ok,thank you for your advice. ^-^

[TraceurMikado]

really? they own all japanese planes with 2 level planes? cmon thats retarded

[WangDianshi]

@LS1871

"LS1871"に従事する打飛機オナニー

[milvipes]

@TheNinjanordundor During the first 3 months of the aerial warfare, ROCAF actually had a fairly favorable kill ratio againt IJAAF due to Japan's erroneus tactical doctrines. But IJAAF soon corrected their defficiencies and achieved a 6.5:1 kill ratio in 1938. However, by late 1938, with arrival of Polikarpov I-15 & I-16, & Soviet advisors (who brought with them lessons learned during the Spanish Civil War), ROCAF regained the upper hand (until 1940).