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Yesterday the 1942 movie "Flying Tigers" was shown.
Probably not total coincidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers_(film)
"Flying Tigers (a.k.a. Yank Over Singapore and Yanks Over the
Burma Road) is a 1942 American black-and-white war film drama
from Republic Pictures that was produced by Edmund Grainger,
directed by David Miller, and stars John Wayne, John Carroll,
and Anna Lee.

Flying Tigers dramatizes the exploits of the American Volunteer
Group (AVG), Americans who fought the Japanese in China, serving
with the Chinese Nationalist forces, during World War II.

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