ANNALS OF THE FLYING TIGERS
"Carl Molesworth's book has a few flaws but it is well written, interesting, and its artwork and illustrations are a visual delight. Despite this reviewer's barbs, Carl's book will be highly interesting and useful to many readers. For those interested but who have not ventured deeply; or at all, into the aerial conflict in China it may be considered an essential addition to their library. For many others the illustrations and accounts of combat in 1944-1945 will be interesting and worthwhile." Read Richard Dunn's review
Shantih (peace) to Dick Rossi of the AVG 1st Squadron, who died April 17. His death leaves only three men now alive who flew the P-40 in combat for the American Volunteer Group.
Amazon has come up with an admirable e-book reader called the Kindle, with a keyboard and wireless access. I've converted five books to the new format, including Remains: A Story of the Flying Tigers and Olga Greenlaw's The Lady and the Tigers. Check it out! If you don't want a dedicated e-book reader, you can get much the same effect with the free Mobipocket software for Windows computers and portable devices like the Blackberry and Smartphone. Remains and The Lady and the Tigers are likewise available in this format.
Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
THE AVG FILES:
- Recruiting the AVG: the Navy memos
- Recruiting the AVG: Bruce Leighton's memo
- "Your resignation is accepted" (George Burgard's scrapbook)
- Effective, yes—but legal? (Richard Dunn)
- Lauchlin Currie: a spy at the heart of the AVG?
- Roster of the American Volunteer Group
- "He has crashed up three planes in the first week"
- Pete Wright's AVG identification card
- Status of the AVG at the outbreak of war
- Layout of Mingaladon airport, Rangoon, December 1941
- Bob Neale in Rangoon (from his diary)
- "What Odds They Faced in Burma's Sky!"
- "The Flying Tigers in Burma" (Leland Stowe)
- On the tactics used by AVG pilots (Erik Shilling)
- Bert Christman: life imitating art (Andrew Glaess)
- Greg "Pappy" Boyington, Flying Tiger
- Aces: AVG pilots credited with five or more air-to-air victories
- Flying Tigers victory credits, air and ground
- AVG pilot losses, December 1941 - July 1942
- Some of the lads at Kunming (Clare Boothe Luce's photo)
The Flying Tigers write home
- Lew Bishop writes home from Burma
- Arnold Shamblin writes home from Yunnan-yi
- Lacey Mangleburg writes home from Hamilton Field
And yes, there were plans for more
- Illusive target: Bombing Japan from China (Richard Dunn)
- Sgt. Charland Down Under
- "Jimmy" Stewart's odd story (Time magazine)
- Roster of the 2nd American Volunteer Group
- FDR orders the navy to release men for the 3rd AVG
THE P-40 FILES:
- R.T. Smith's iconic photo of Tomahawks on patrol
- A Russian view of the P-40 Tomahawk
- Dogfight: Brewster Buffalo v. Curtiss P-40 (Erik Shilling)
- Pilot's Notes for the AVG Tomahawk
- Joe Baugher's files on the small-mouthed Curtiss models
- Data sheet on the AVG Tomahawks shipped to Rangoon
- Assembling and testing P-40s in Burma (Byron Glover)
- On spinning the Curtiss fighters (Erik Shilling)
- Number 80 does a ground loop at Toungoo
- Christman's nose art for the 2nd Squadron Tomahawks
- Some AVG "veterans" in Kunming, c. 1943
- About those small-mouthed P-40 survivors
- Mac McGarry's Tomahawk in Thailand
THE JAAF FILES:
- JAAF deployments against Rangoon, December-March (maps)
- Lucky Sevens? life and death of the 77th Sentai (Richard Dunn)
- Rising sun over Burma: JAAF vs. AVG
- Chiang Mai and afterward (Newkirk's plane?)
- Last days in Burma: Col Kato meets Sgt McLuckie
- JAAF fighter pilots lost in China-Burma area, 1941-42
- Suzuki-san recalls the AVG (December 1941)
- Japanese aircraft encountered by the AVG
- About those Nakajima Ki-43 machineguns
- Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa ("Oscar") armament (Richard Dunn)
- About those Japanese losses
THE CHINESE AIR FORCE FILES:
- Fly Boys of the Generalissimo (Samuel Hui)
- Curtiss Wright CW-21 Demon in Chinese service (Richard Dunn)
- The last days of the CAMCO factory at Loiwing (letter from R.C. Wertz)
- Vultee P-66 in Chinese service (Richard Dunn)
- Republic P-43 Lancer in Chinese service (Richard Dunn)
- Sussing out the 'Chengdu Zero'
- The "blood chit" (from Last Hope: The Blood Chit Story)
- China Tiger: a short biography of Claire Chennault
- A Chinese view of General Channault
BOOKS ETC.
- The Flying Tigers store
- An AVG bibliography
- Books reviewed on this site | recommended titles
- A short guide to AVG films, past and present
- "The Story of the 14th Air Force" (streaming video)
A GOOD MYTH NEVER DIES:
- Chris Shores on the subject of AVG victory claims
- 'Straight from the Tiger's Mouth! (GM advertisement)
- Aircraftman Wilf Jepson of the American Volunteer Group
- Ajax Baumler, the 100th Flying Tiger
- Updated: Ed McClure: The Last Flying Tiger Ace (Zeke Striker)
- AVG fliers who crashed in U.S. Army service
- The strange journey of "Little Olson"
- Recovering that P-40 from Lake Kunming
- Tidewater Tech finishes up its P-40E "Kittyhawk"
- No, sorry, the AVG never met the Zero in combat
- Did the RAF "sell" victories to the AVG?
- What about that "phantom P-40" shot down in China?
- 1952 AVG reunion menu with signatures
- 1,500 planes shot down? The ultimate AVG myth
- It's official: the AVG fought for the U.S.
- Wow! Bam! Flying Tigers Comix! / Les Tigres Volants
- Not a Tiger: an imposter 'fesses up
- Harvey Greenlaw in Baja: a friend remembers
- Hostel Number One and the Hump Bar, Kunming
| "In this second edition of his 'revisionist' history masterpiece, Daniel Ford tightens up the tale, corrects a few errors, and adds dramatic new details." -- JDR on SeacoastNH |
42,000 copies in print!
The Smithsonian Institution Press edition went through seven printings from 1991 to 2001. Now Flying Tigers is available again, revised and updated, from HarperCollins.
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