And if the foreigners fighting in the Katanga Army are mercenaries then Lafayette and Von Steuben were mercenaries too, as were also the members of the Lafayette Escadrille in the early part of World War 1, and of Chennault's Flying Tigers in the early days of World War 2.

* Flying Tigers

* Joe was the dachshund of General Claire Lee Chennault, commander of the Flying Tigers and then the China Air Task Force of the US Army Air Forces, and became the mascot of those organizations.

* 1941 – World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the " Flying Tigers " in Kunming, China.

In China, the Flying Tigers also used the same tactics with some success, although they were unable to stem the tide of Japanese advances there.

* Flying Tigers

* September 6 – Claire Lee Chennault, American aviator and general, leader of the Flying Tigers ( d. 1958 )

* Fred Prosper Manget, medical missionary to China, founder of Houzhou General Hospital, Houzhou, China, also a doctor with the Flying Tigers and U. S. Army in Kunming, China, during World War II

In the week following the trade deadline, the Spurs also signed forward Boris Diaw after Diaw's contract was bought out by the Charlotte Bobcats, and former Portland Trail Blazers guard Patrick Mills who played for the Xinjiang Flying Tigers in the CBA during the lockout.

An eleven-year NBA veteran and former NBA All-Star ( 2004 ), Martin joined the Clippers after signing with the Xinjiang Guanghui Flying Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association the previous summer.

So in 1941 the Roosevelt administration authorized the formation of three American Volunteer Groups, of which the 1st AVG was deployed to Burma and China and became famous as the Flying Tigers.

* Claire Chennault of the " Flying Tigers ," though born in Commerce, Texas, lived for a time in Waterproof in southern Tensas Parish.

Along with accepting the 23d Wing designation, Moody AFB accepted the responsibility of carrying on the historic Flying Tigers heritage.

* World War II flying ace Colonel Gregory " Pappy " Boyington was born in Coeur d ' Alene on December 4, 1912, and was a member of the AVG ( Flying Tigers ) and later the commander of the famous Black Sheep Squadron.

Chennault retired in 1937, went to work as an aviation trainer and adviser in China, and commanded the " Flying Tigers " during World War II, both the volunteer group and the uniformed units that replaced it in 1942.

US Army Air Forces video :" Flying Tigers Bite Back "

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.

The Flying Tigers were formally incorporated into the United States Army Air Forces in 1942.

A vintage Curtiss P-40 aircraft, nicknamed " Joy ", is on display at the riverside war memorial in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, painted in the colors of the Flying Tigers.

In 2005, the " Flying Tigers Memorial " was built in Huaihua, Hunan Province, on one of the old airstrips used by the Flying Tigers in the 1940s.

Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941 – 1942.

* Flying Tigers Memorial in China ( in Chinese )

On 10 March 2011, it was revealed that Prince Harry had passed his Apache flying test and he was awarded his Apache Flying Badge on 14 April 2011.

* Kee-too-way-how (‘ Sounding With Flying Wings ’, better known as Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born 1834 St. Boniface, Manitoba, son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was of Métis descent he became chief of the Willow Cree and the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother of Petequakey (‘ Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau ’), lived along Duck Lake, signed 1876 Treaty 6 and settled in a reserve at Muskeg Lake-that was later named after his brother Petequakey-but left the reserve in 1880 and lived again in the following years close to St. Laurent de Grandin mission, played a prominent role during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 in which he participated in every battle, served also as an emissary of the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont to ask the Assiniboine for support, on 23 May 1885 he also submitted the declaration of surrender of Pitikwahanapiwiyin (' Poundmaker ') to General Middleton, was captured on the 1st June 1885, in the subsequent trial of Kee-too-way-how at Regina, Louis Cochin testified that he and the carters in the camp of Pitikwahanapiwiyin survived only thanks to the intercession by Kee-way-too-how and its people, despite the positive testimony, he was on 14 August 1885 sentenced to imprisonment for seven years for his involvement in the Métis rebellion, died 1886 ).

In 1915, at the age of 14, he graduated the equivalent of High School, and begged his family to let him enroll in the Nippon Flying school at Haneda.

Recovery of Discoverer 14 | Discoverer 14 return capsule by a C-119 Flying Boxcar | C-119 airplane

It first appeared on the ninth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, " The Ant: An Introduction " on BBC1 on 14 December 1969.

The host unit at Columbus is the 14th Flying Training Wing ( 14 FTW ) assigned to the Air Education and Training Command Nineteenth Air Force.

The United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) officially only bombed precision targets over Europe, but for example, when 316 B-17 Flying Fortresses bombed Dresden in a follow-up raid at around noon on the 14 February 1945, because of cloud the later waves bombed using H2X radar for targeting.

When 14 surviving B-17 Flying Fortresses and 143 personnel of the heavy bombardment force were withdrawn from Mindanao to Darwin, Australia in the third week of December 1941, Headquarters FEAF followed it within days.

Flying was considered so dangerous that no stigma was attached for refusing to fly, and his request was granted ( five of the Army's 14 aviators transferred out during 1913 ).

Flying with the 435th Bombardment Squadron in the defense of Port Moresby, it was lost with its 10-man crew on August 14, 1942.

" The Ministry of Silly Walks " is a sketch from the Monty Python comedy troupe's television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, episode 14, which is entitled " Face the Press ".

He developed and contributed to many dinghy classes which are still with us nearly a century later: the Albacore, International 14, National 12, the Firefly, Flying Fifteen and the Scorpion.

Examples of such dinghies are the International Flying Dutchman, the International 505, the Jet 14, the Fireball, the Osprey, the Javelin and the International 470.

In 2006, Pocklington celebrated its second annual Flying Man Festival with a multitude of themed events from 12 to 14 May, in memory of the showman Thomas Pelling, the " Flying Man of Pocklington ", who, with a pair of homemade wings, attempted a flight from the top of the local church, meeting his end when he collided with one of the church's buttresses.

Flying over the treetops with flickering wings and downward-pointing bill, it utters several deep croaks followed by a sharp squeak ; the grunts are at a frequency of between 0. 6 to 1. 5 kHz and the squeaks range from 3 to 14 kHz.

The Wing was a composite formation of the No. 14 Squadron and the Australian Flying Corps's No. 1 Squadron.

His intelligence on enemy dispositions was considerably better thanks to the work of the aviators of No. 5 Wing, which consisted of No. 14 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps and No. 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps.

:: No. 14 Squadron Royal Flying Corps

Flyvende Fiske 14 ( brig-rigged cutter )– sailed to Britain, added to Royal Navy as Flying Fish 14

* Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe in Gold for fighter pilots ( 14 November 1942 )

14 B-17 Flying Fortresses that survived the Battle of the Philippines left Mindanao for Darwin, Australia, between 17 and 20 December 1941, the only aircraft of the Far East Air Force to escape.