TACTICAL RECON PILOTS: (14TH AIR FORCE) Pilots of the 118th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron are seen in front of one of their unit’s North American P-51D Mustangs. Wayne Johnson is seen kneeling at the right of the first row. The photo is one of the many terrific wartime photographic images of aircraft...
KUNMING KITTYHAWKS: (AVG) In another great color image by AVG Fighter “Ace” “R.T.” Smith, seven newly arrived Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk fighters of the American Volunteer Group are seen lined up along the runway at Kunming’s Wujiaba airfield in the early summer on 1942. Starting...
Pilot’s and Crew Members of Number 681 Squadron, RAF are seen with one of their A De Havilland Mosquito FB MK VI fighter-bombers at Kumbhirgram in North Eastern India’s Assam Valley. Known as the “Wooden Wonder” because of its all wooden monocoque construction, which was conceived...
EAST CHINA MUSTANG (14TH AIR FORCE) A remarkable color photograph of a P-51D Mustang of the 23rd Fighter Group’s 118th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron that is seen on an Eastern Chinese airfield, possibly Liuchow. The photo is one of the many terrific wartime photographic images of aircraft of the 118th...
A COLORFUL BURMA BANSHEE: (10th AIR FORCE) A terrific colorization of a Curtiss P-40N Warhawk of the 80th Fighter Group’s 89th Fighter Squadron at Dinjian in India’s northeastern Assam Valley, shows to good effect, the white skull markings that were worn by the 80th Fighter Group’s...
LIBERATOR EXPRESS (ATC “HUMP” AIRLIFT) The crew of a Air Transport Command, Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express transport is seen on an eastern Indian airfield. The C-87 was one of two transport aircraft developed from Consolidated’s better known B-24 Liberator heavy four engined bomber....
The Chinese and American people share a common heritage that was forged in the skies above China during the Second World War.
