Flying Tigers takes place in China during WWII. The Flying Tigers is as group of American pilots that volunteered to help China fight Japan.The movie begins with Japan bombing China. Whenever one of the pilots shoots down a Japanese airplane that pilots gets paid. Every pilot gets about $600 a month for fighting and then they paid more for the number of kills or planes shot down.
After the first attack Captain Jim went to get new2 recruits. One of the new recruit’s name was Woody. When Woody and Jim got to the base an attack started. Jim told Woody to stay drowned because he had to go through training before he could fight. Woody didn’t listen and hopped into the nearest plane. The plane that Woody had didn’t have any ammunition. The other pilots were able to protect Woody so nothing bad would happen.
Woody became a very good pilot. He had the highest number of kills. Jim moved him up to 2nd position. Hape was kicked out of the 2nd position because his eyes were going bad.
Flying Tigers started night watch and they were supposed to go up at 10:55pm. Woody was late so Hape went up in his place. Hape got too close to Japanese plane and crashed into it.
On that same day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States joined the war. The Flying Tigers decided to take out a bridge that the Japan’s supply trains would cross on.
Woody and Jim took a regular plane and filled it with homemade bombs. When they went over the bridge they bombed it. Woody and Jim were supposed to jump out of the plane but Woody didn’t jump. Woody flew the plane straight into the train. The movie ends with the Flying Tigers going up to fight Japan in another attack.
I liked this movie. I thought that it showed what war was really like. When someone died they couldn’t get emotional about it because they had to fight more.
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