ANNALS OF THE FLYING TIGERS
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
