China Girl (1942)

The year is 1941, and in Luichow, China, a news cameraman named Johnny Williams is taken into custody by the Japanese military, because they want him to take pictures for them of the Burma Road construction. Johnny will get $20,000 for his work, but he isn’t interested. Johnny is put back into his cell, together with a Canadian, Major Bull Weed, who served as a soldier on the Chinese side in the war. Bull manages to get a gun into the cell from a visiting woman, Captain Fifi, and using the gun, the two men can escape from their captors.

They rendezvous with Fifi and get on a plane. Johnny, who is an amateur pilot, flies them all to safety in Mandalay. Upon their arrival, Johnny bumps into his old friend, Captain Shorty Maguire, who is also a pilot, serving with “The Flying Tigers”, doing missions against the Japanese.