2015 Menghai DaYi Legend of Flying Tigers (Chuan Qi) Ripe

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2015 Menghai DaYi Legend of Flying Tigers (Chuan Qi) Ripe 357g
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The tea cake was made to commemorate late Mr. Claire Lee Chennault (September 6, 1893 – July 27, 1958) was an American military aviator best known for his leadership of the “Flying Tigers” and the Republic of China Air Force in World War II. Based primarily out of Rangoon, Burma, and Kunming, Yunnan, Chennault’s 1st American Volunteer Group (AVG) – better known as the “Flying Tigers” – began training in August 1941 and fought the Japanese for seven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Chennault’s three squadrons used P-40s, and his tactics of “defensive pursuit,” formulated in the years when bombers were actually faster than intercepting fighter aircraft, to guard the Burma Road, Rangoon, and other strategic locations in Southeast Asia and western China against Japanese forces. As the commander of the Chinese Air Force flight training school at Yunnan-yi, west of Kunming, Chennault also made a great contribution by training a new generation Chinese fighter pilots. The Flying Tigers were formally incorporated into the United States Army Air Forces in 1942. Prior to that, Chennault had rejoined the Army with the rank of colonel. He was later promoted to brigadier general and then major general, commanding the Fourteenth Air Force.

A man to be remembered, and a quality tea was made to pay respect.