Flying Tigers
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The Flying Tigers were a volunteer American fighter unit that fought in Burma and China against Japanese forces during the first year of the United States participation in World War II.
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[edit] U.S. aircraft
 P-40 maintenance |
 P-40s at Kunming |
Pilots running towards warharks. |
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 Curtiss P-40E |
 A Chinese soldier guards a line of P-40 planes |
 A Liberator bomber crosses the shark-nosed bows of U.S. P-40 fighters |
P-40s flying in formation. |
 P-43s in China. |
 Crew chief indicates a P-40 pilot's scores. |
[edit] Japanese aircraft
 Nakajima Ki-43-IIa. |
 Nakajima Ki-43-II. |
 Japanese bomber(Ki-21-3) over Chungking.从飞机上俯拍的日军轰炸渝中半岛的照片。 |
 Type Zero aircrafts. |
 IJA Type 96 bomber over Chungking. |
 Japanese type97 fighter plane. |
 Japanese Ki-21-3 ready for war. |
 Type 96 Japanese attack air-plane. |
 Four Japanese Navy Type 96 planes. |
[edit] People
 William Pawley, American businessman, diplomat and intelligence operative, Founder of The Flying Tigers. |
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 Tex Hill of the Flying Tigers. |
 General Claire Lee Chennault - founder of the Flying Tigers in China |
 US pilot with blood chit on jacket. |
[edit] Badges and insignia
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 A blood chit with the badge of the Flying Tigers |
 The badge of the 14th Air Force, successor to the Flying Tigers |
