Sam Kleiner is a historian and lawyer based in New York City. Sam holds a doctorate in international relations from the University of Oxford, England, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a JD from Yale Law School. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic. He was raised in Tucson, Arizona Sam's interest in World War II started when he was a kid and would listen to stories from his grandfather, who was a navigator on a B-25 in the Pacific during World War II. He read every book about World War II in his elementary school library. He went on to study American history at Northwestern University and then was awarded a Marshall Scholarship to continue his studies at the University of Oxford, where he completed a doctorate in International Relations, focusing on how the President makes the decision to go to war. While attending law school at Yale, Sam stumbled across a collection of love letters between a nurse and a Flying Tigers pilots that were stored in the basement of an archive. The handwritten letters had faded over the decades, the paper almost crumbling but he knew that this was a story that needed to be told. Inspired to learn everything he could about the Flying Tigers and their families, Sam was the only went to the Flying Tigers Association reunion in 2015, where he was the only outside historian. He became close with Frank Losonsky, who is now the last surviving Flying Tiger. Many of the family members supported his research, helping him find diaries and letters that had been tucked away for decades. In 2017, he was the keynote speaker at the Flying Tigers reunion. Sam interviewed Anna Chennault and the family gave him access to hundreds of original combat reports that had been sitting in a basement. These firsthand accounts of the pilots’ battles offer an unprecedented and intimate view on the Flying Tigers.