Chinese group plans to recover WWII American plane from lake

Way back, in 1941, American President Franklin D Roosevelt dispatched a squad of fighters to China called the Flying Tigers.

The Flying Tigers were sent to help China fight the Japanese from December 1941 to July 1942.

Now, a Chinese group plans to recover a Curtiss P-40 that belonged to the Flying Tigers from the Dianchi Lake near Kunming where it had crashed in 1942.

The Flying Tigers are credited with downing over 300 Japanese planes as part of their support missions, marking the first success of Americans’ aerial attacks.

To fund the resurrection of the plane - which was first found in 2005 - the group is trying to raise $5 to $7 million from donations; they also hope the plane will ease tensions between USA and China .