TEETH FOR THE SHARK: (CATF) A Curtiss P-40K Warhawk of the 23rd Fighter Group’s 75th Fighter Squadron is seen with its tail elevated as its armorers are seen bore-sighting its six .50 caliber machine guns at the CATF airfield at Hengyang. It was the standard practice of China based P-40 and P-51...
“SCOTTY”: (CATF) In one of the more widely recognized photographs of the Second World War, then Colonel Robert L. Scott, the legendary first commander of the 23rd Fighter Group is seen in the cockpit of his Curtiss P-40E “Kittyhawk” fighter on a Western Yunnan airfield in late...
Captain Grattan “Grant” Mahony as the commander of the 23rd Fighter Group’s 76th Fighter Squadron, is seen in front of one of his Squadron’s Curtiss P-40K Warhawks at Hengyang. Mahony arrived in China with four confirmed aerial victories, following a very hard-fought combat tour...
The Chinese and American people share a common heritage that was forged in the skies above China during the Second World War.
