Trailer-Proposed idea for Flying Tigers WWII movie

Thanks for the pointer! As you probably know, the trailer is cobbled together from a bit of AVG home movies and a lot of John Wayne's 1942 epic from Republic motion pictures studio. Funny thing is, that old movie got one thing right: the Japanese planes that the AVG met in combat. They were mostly Nakajima Ki-27 fighters with fixed landing gear and two rifle-caliber machine guns that Republic clipped from Japanese feature films of the late 1930s, showing its army in combat in China and on the Soviet border. But in the trailer, they're always cropped close, so you can't see how old-fashioned they seemed. And when you do see a Japanese fighter (or a hundred, as in one computer-generated scene) it's always a Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a navy fighter that the AVG never met in combat.

Oh yes, and the Flying Tigers weren't given their name by the beleaguered Chinese, but by the young bureaucrats at China Defense Supplies in Washington DC. For more about all this, see Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and his American Volunteers, 1941-1942 (Daniel Ford) for the definite history, and the Annals of the Flying Tigers for online resources. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford