LEGEND WOULD HAVE IT that the action was nonstop when a fabled band of American fighter pilots took to Asian skies in their shark-toothed Curtiss P-40s and battled the Japanese during the grim opening days of World War II. As author Carl Molesworth chronicles, the legend is only partly true. Certainly, the Flying Tigers distinguished themselves in combat, but they were not infrequently grounded by rainy weather, got lost while hunting the enemy, and sometimes made catastrophically bad landings that totaled their aircraft.
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