RECON WARHAWK: (14TH AIR FORCE) Lt. Henry Davis of the 23rd Fighter Group’s 118th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron is seen in the cockpit of his Curtiss P-40N Warhawk at Kweilin (Guilin) in September 1944. The Squadron’s Warhawks were equipped with aerial cameras and guns, which gave them...

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE: (14TH AIR FORCE) Two flights of North American P-51 Mustangs of the 23rd Fighter Group’s 118th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron are seen above their home airfield in Eastern China. The photo is one of the many terrific wartime photographic images of aircraft of the 118th TRS,...

BAOSHAN MUSTANG: (14TH AIR FORCE) Captain Clell McKenny of the 51st Fighter Group’s 25th Fighter Squadron “The Assam Dragons,” is seen at the tail of his North American P-51D Mustang “Lil Stuff II” at Baoshan in western Yunnan Province. The 25th Fighter Squadron was the last...

A North American P-51B Mustang that was originally assigned to the 23rd Fighter Group’s 26th Fighter Squadron but was transferred to the 23rd Fighter Group’s 118th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron.

Colonel Sterling Barrow seen as young Photo Reconnaissance Pilot in front of his 35th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, Lockheed F-5 Lighting “photo ship” at Yunnanyi in western Yunnan Province. The F-5 was the unarmed photo reconnaissance version of the fast and high flying Lockheed P-38J Lightning...

Four time, All American Football “Great” Tom Harmon is seen at the nose of his Lockheed P-38 Lightning as a member of the China based, 449th Fighter Squadron. Harmon had been originally trained as a B-25 Bomber pilot, however after a delayed arrival in India cause by a weather related flight...