World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: End of the A.V.G.

China's heart was in the words from Chungking: General Chennault and his company of air knights will always be remembered by the Chinese people as comrades in arms and as the friendly representatives of a friendly people.

An official review listed the A.V.G. score: 284 Jap planes destroyed in seven months, as many more probably destroyed, ten A.V.G. pilots and one crew chief killed in action, nine flyers killed in accidents. An A.V.G. squadron had a last flight, shooting down at least six Japs over Hengyang. The Generalissimo gave a dinner for General...

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