World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Tigers' Last Leaps

The most terrifying battle cry of World War II will soon be heard no longer on the headquarters' radio.

British pursuit pilots will still call to one another their sporting "Tallyho" as they sight the enemy and plunge out of formation to attack. The serious Germans will still rasp their guttural "Achtung! Achtung!" as they spot the foe. But the gallant, hell-for-leather professional pilots of the American Volunteer Group suddenly glimpsing a Jap formation will no longer have reason to exchange their gleeful call: "Certified check!"

The war had outgrown the A.V.G....

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