MINGALADON TOMAHAWK: (AVG) A ground staff member of the American Volunteer Group, utilizes his jeep to strikes a confidant pose in front of one of the Group’s Curtiss Hawk 81-A-2 (P-40B Tomahawk) fighters at the Royal Air Force airfield at Mingaladon, just outside of Rangoon, Burma. This particularly...
THE HELL ANGEL’S TOP GUN: (AVG) American Volunteer Group Flight Leader and 10.5 kill fighter “Ace” Kenneth Jernstedt is seen in the cockpit of one of the Group’s Curtiss Hawk 81-A-2 (P-40B Tomahawk) at Kunming’s Wujiaba Airfield. Jernstedt was one of five Marine Corps Aviators...
FLYING TIGERS RETURNS TO GUILIN. (AVG) American Volunteer Group Flight Leader and Fighter “Ace” and record setting C.N.A.C. “Hump” Pilot “Dick” Rossi and Jeff Greene the Ex. Director of the SAAHF are seen next to a Second World World airfield “Stone Roller”...
FLYING TIGER USED PARTS DEPARTMENT, TOUNGOO, BURMA: (AVG) In another remarkable color image form Brad Smith’s collation of his father’s wartime photographs, AVG Flight Leader and Fighter “Ace” Robert “R.T. Smith is seen at the AVG “Bone Yard” at Kyedaw, the Royal...
A Curitss Hawk 81-A-2 (P-40B Tomahawk) flown by AVG pilot Percy Bartlet is seen on a runway in western Yunnan, (that is thought to be Loiwing.) Flying as a member of the AVG’s 2nd Pursuit Squadron, Bartlet would be credit with seven aerial victories, however Bartlet who had been a naval aviator...
The Chinese and American people share a common heritage that was forged in the skies above China during the Second World War.
