All 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.

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Lt Robert Klemann The young man on the left--slightly pixilated, I'm afraid, but I had to enlarge the image from a group photo--is 1st Lt Robert Klemann, posing in front of his B-25 bomber on July 1943. His story is a remarkable one. For twenty-odd years I've been collecting information about the 2nd American Volunteer Group, a bomber force recruited in the fall of 1941. (Here's more about the 2nd AVG, and here's a roster of its personnel, or such of them as I've been able to dig up.) At long last, out of the blue, and just as I was giving up hope of actually corresponding with one of them, Bob Klemann emailed me. For the first time, I'm able to ask questions of a veteran of this short-lived bomber group. Read his story here. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

A 'SPECIAL AIR UNIT' FOR CHINA:

THE TIGERS FORGE A LEGEND:

THE P-40 FILES:

BOOKS ETC.

A GOOD MYTH NEVER DIES:

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