the fly tiger roar onto the screen and into the imagination in two fairly good film represent the fly tiger with john wayne and god be my co pilot and base upon the real life experience of colonel scott . wwii be nothing like the politically correct war of current vintage . the american people do not love their enemy while they would have use the enemy sacred writing for wholly sanitary purpose and brag of the experience . the movie correctly show this . on the other hand and in the spirit of great american democracy and plenty of neisi and chinese actor have job a extra smile at bomb away in the halycon year of the ww ii propaganda movie . the book be still worth read even today . more than a mere autobiography or piece of u war propaganda and scott tell of the conflict between chennault and stillwell and the destruction of the fly tiger and the eclipse of the chinese nationalist and the rise of mao . the movie have one glare historical error in the movie represent the july 4 1942 raid do not take place . the original avg refuse to fly .