Flying Tigers: Roster of the American Volunteer Group
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Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and the American Volunteer Group …
All about the American Volunteer Group (AVG) Flying Tigers and their commander Claire Chennault Files and images about the American Volunteer Group commanded by Claire Chennault. The AVG Flying Tigers defended Burma and China with their shark-faced P-40 Tomahawks in the opening months of the Pacific War, December 1941 - July 1942.
Flying Tigers: AVG victory credits for Japanese aircraft
Duke Hedman, for example, was famed for becoming an "ace in a day" on December 25, 1941, but ended his AVG tour with just 4.83 official victories as a result of such an agreement. Similarly, Joe Rosbert deserved to be called an ace but fell short on the CAMCO accounting. Altogether, 67 Flying Tigers received bonus payments.
Flying Tigers: Roster of the American Volunteer Group
HOME > TIGERS > ATTACHED. Roster of the Flying Tigers: attached. Jump to A-E | F-L | M-R | S-Z | 2nd AVG. Shown below are the civilian and military personnel (American, Chinese, and British) who worked with the AVG at some point in Burma, China, or India.
Flying Tigers: Roster of the American Volunteer Group
* Joined the AVG in Asia. CAMCO: Central Aircraft Manufacturing Co. Seven Chinese-Americans were recruited to help assemble the P-40s at Rangoon. In May 1942 they joined the AVG as "engineering helpers," and in July most enlisted in the U.S. Army. For their story, see Those Chinese Tigers.
R.T. Smith's photo of the Flying Tiger P-40 Tomahawks
R.T. Smith's photo of the AVG Tomahawks This is probably the most famous photograph of the American Volunteer Group Flying Tigers, taken by R.T. Smith of the 3rd Squadron Hell's Angels. His son, Brad Smith, describes the photo this way: " The photograph was taken by Dad, probably from #47, on May 28, 1942 near the Salween River Gorge.
Flying Tigers: Roster of the American Volunteer Group
Flying Tigers: Roster of the American Volunteer Group
Flying Tigers: Roster of the American Volunteer Group
HOME > TIGERS > ROSTER > 2ND AVG Roster of the 2nd AVG The 2nd AVG was a bomber group, authorized by President Roosevelt and recruited by Bill Pawley's Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company in the fall of 1941. CAMCO hired 82 pilots and 359 ground crew (almost certainly including air crew) who were duly discharged from the U.S. Army in November.
Flying Tigers: Roosevelt's letter to the armed forces
The Flying Tiger romances all speak of a "secret executive order" supposedly signed by President Roosevelt to create the American Volunteer Group. No such order has ever surfaced, and Roosevelt historians agree that it wouldn't have been his style: he preferred to give a wink and a nod, and to leave the details to his subordinates-- Lauchlin ...
Flying Tigers P-40 in Lake Kunming - warbirdforum.com
2003年8月19日 · All the written evidence I have seen (notably Don Rodewald's unpublished diary and Charlie Bond's journal that was edited and published as A Flying Tiger's Diary) say that the plane was a P-40E, or Kittyhawk as some AVG pilots called it. Bond's recollection is particularly clear: "Blackburn took off for his check ride in a P-40E and never returned.