This Week in Texas History: Chennault’s 'Tigers' fly circles around Japanese

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President Franklin Roosevelt secretly signed an executive order in early April 1942 that allowed American aviators to join Claire Chennault’s volunteers in China. With the United States still eight months away from entering the escalating worldwide conflict, support for the “Flying Tigers” had…

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