Flying Tigers (aka Yank Over Singapore and Yanks Over the Burma Road) is a 1942 black-and-white World War II film from Republic Pictures, produced by Edmund Grainger, directed by David Miller that stars John Wayne, John Carroll, and Anna Lee. Flying Tigers dramatizes the exploits of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), Americans already fighting the enemy in China prior to the U. S. entry into the second world war. It is unabashedly a wartime propaganda film that was well received by a 1940s populace looking for a patriotic "flagwaver".