On this day, 67 years ago, July 27, 1958 (June 11, 1958, the captain of the Flying Tigers, Chennault, passed away. Chennault July 27, 1958. Lieutenant General Claire Lee Chennault, a pioneer pilot known in China with the Flying Tigers, died today in a New Orleans hospital at the age of 67 due to lung cancer. His wife Anna guarded the bedside. Anna is a China journalist who once worked as a protector in the Flying Tigers. Chennault, the son of a cotton farmer in Louisiana, became an Army aviation pilot in World War I and quickly demonstrated tactical talent for using fighter jets. In the 1930s, he was the captain of an aerobatic team known as the "trapeze". He put forward a new idea that multiple fighter jets flying in formation are more effective than flying alone. The effect of this new idea was seen in the First World War. In 1938, Madame Chiang Kai-shek hired him to rebuild the China Kuomintang Air Force. With Washington's acquiescence, he organized the American Volunteer Corps-Americans flying American-made aircraft to fight for the China. This volunteer team later became the famous "Flying Tigers". From its first flight in December 1941 to its inclusion in the Army Air Force in July 1942, the team shot down a total of 250 Japanese aircraft. Lieutenant General Claire Chennault perpetuated the name of "Flying Tigers" by Chiang Kai-shek and Chennault