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David Lee “Tex” Hill, a naval aviator who left the service to join the Flying Tigers in the defense of China from Imperial Japanese aggression, died Thursday at his home near San Antonio, surrounded by his family. He was 92 years old.

Made up of volunteers flying obsolete planes half a world away, the Flying Tigers first tangled with Japanese pilots about two weeks after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on the Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, shooting down nine enemy planes and killing 63 airmen over Kunming. They had flown as U.S. military aviators until being secretly recruited to fight as mercenaries over China, which had no air force.

The Flying Tigers came to Asia carrying passports that identified them as farmers, traders, vaudeville entertainers and missionaries. Some of the real missionaries on board their Java-bound ocean liner, the Bloemfontein, sang hymns each morning as the pilots slept off their hangovers. The pilots retaliated each night by playing swing music on a phonograph…

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