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Flying Tigers Hero Recalls Burma Burma Campaign and AVG Bonds
The narrator details air missions over Burma and China with the AVG. He strafes enemy positions along the Salween and Burma Road, notes long flights, and recollects battles with Zeros. He praises AVG veterans like Tex Hill and George Paxton, and recalls a Kunming to Indo China raid ending with Bishop's capture.
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Lashie
AVG
Tex Hill
Thailand
Lashio
Katha
Bhamo
Myitkyina
Irrawaddy
Mogaung
Salween
Papshan
Tom Jones
Bishop
Burma Road
Chefang
Burma
Yunnan
Flying Tigers
China
Army Air Corps
Claire Chennault
George Paxton
Army
Paxton
Hill
Rector
Bond
Neal
Lawler
Rangoon
Mingaladong
Doctor Gentry
George
Kunming
Indo- China
R. T. Smith
Santa Maria
California
Kunming Field
Mengtze
Laokay
Lackay
Indo-China
Chennault
Laokayal