AVG Flying Tigers Pilots Cap Badge Museum Quality Replica WW2 Handmade

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AVG Flying Tigers Pilots Cap Badge Museum Quality Replica WW2 Handmade:
$28.00

AVG Flying Tigers Pilots Cap Badge Museum Quality Replica WW2 .

Handmade by military badge makers.

Please Note: This will be posted out to winning buyer on 5 days after end of sale.

Size:

6.5cm x 6cm high.

2.5 inches x 2 1/4 inches.

TheAmerican Volunteer Groupswerevolunteerair units organized by the United States government to aid theNationalist government of ChinaagainstJapanin theSecond Sino-Japanese War. The only unit to actually see combat was the 1st AVG, popularly known as theFlying Tigers.

In an effort to aid the Nationalist government of China and to put pressure on Japan, PresidentFranklin Rooseveltin April 1941 authorized the creation of a clandestine \"Special Air Unit\" consisting of three combat groups equipped with American aircraft and staffed by aviators and technicians to be recruited from theU.S. Army,NavyandMarine Corpsfor service in China. The program was fleshed out in the winter of 1940–1941 byClaire Lee Chennault, then an air advisor to the Chinese Nationalist leaderChiang Kai-shek, andLauchlin Currie, a young economist in the Roosevelt White House. They envisioned a small air corps of 500 combat aircraft, although in the end, the number was reduced to 200 fighters and 66 light bombers.[1] source Wikipedia