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AmericAn Volunteer Group • Chinese Air ForCe 1941-1942

ClevelAnd, ohio september 1-5, 2011

Flying Tigers

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Thursday, sepTember 1sT

Welcome to Cleveland

Registration

Hospitality Room is open all day

Friday, sepTember 2nd

Breakfast in hotel restaurant on your own included with hotel.

9:30 a.m. Bus leaves for Cleveland tour - includes lunch at Sterle’s (featured on Food Network)

Afternoon - free time. Hospitality Room open

6:30 p.m. Bus leaves for Bo Loong Chinese Restaurant (voted one of America’s Top 100 Chinese Restaurants)

Hospitality Room opens upon return

saTurday, sepTember 3rd

Breakfast in hotel restaurant on your own included with hotel.

10:30 a.m. Bus leaves for Cleveland National Air Show

Lunch - on your own (vouchers provided)

4:00 p.m. Buffet meal at hangar

Evening free time to enjoy town

Hospitality Room open all evening

sunday, sepTember 4Th

Breakfast in hotel restaurant on your own (included)

10:00 a.m. Service at Old Stone Church (optional - call Mike and Nancy to arrange for transportation)

Hospitality Room open all morning and afternoon

Lunch on your own

Board Meetings TBA

5:30 p.m. Cocktail Reception

6:30 p.m. Banquet

Hospitality Room re-opens after Banquet

monday, sepTember 5Th

Breakfast in hotel restaurant on your own included with hotel.

Stop in Hospitality Room for farewells

ConTenTs

3 The Real Flying Tigers4 Flying Tigers Association Scholarship Essay winner5 Group Headquarters Section8 Adam & Even Squadron10 Panda Bears Squadron12 Hell’s Angels Squadron14 Flying Tigers Roster19-29 Photo collage memorabilia30 Acknowledgements

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Wings oF a hero

Gen. Claire Lee Chennault grew up on a farm in Northeast Louisiana. He loved Louisiana, and he also loved history, particularly military history. His background, independent spirit and determination led him to a career that has been unparalleled in our military history.

Chennault’s ideas were not widely appreciated during his early military career in the U.S. He fought hard to be heard, but his ideas fell on deaf ears because there were many officers - with more education and more formal training - who differed with him. After being rejected by the U.S. military, he answered a call to come to China and survey the Chinese air corp. He told his family that he would be gone for three months, but this was a trip from which he would never entirely return.

Claire Chennault was always an American first, but he also had a great bond with the Chinese people. He is remembered there with great regard because the Chinese continue to commemorate his accomplishments for their country. – Nell Calloway Granddaughter of Claire Chennault.

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In all the history of aerial combat, there had never been such a total air victory as this. For Chennault, it was long-sought vindication of the tactics for aerial combat which he had sought to pioneer in America’s aerial forces before the war. They were to be universally-accepted only after Chennault’s Tigers had made living proof of his concepts. In 1937, the Chinese asked Chennault to help them develop an airforce. Claire Lee Chennault went to China to do what he could to help a nation in distress. In 1941, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek authorized Chennault to bring together a group of American airmen to help train the Chinese. With the consent of President Roos-evelt, members of the American Armed Forces were permitted to volunteer for duty with the new service in China. The tour of duty was to be one year’s service. The group, drawn from the U.S. Army, Navy and Marine Corps, straggled into China, 97 pilots and 185 ground person-nel. In Burma some 100 P-40 fighter planes, sidetracked from other military assignments, awaited them. Some of those air-craft had seen better days. The new group of Americans joining the Chinese formed into three squadrons: Adam and Eve, the Panda Bears and Hell’s Angels. With Chennault urging them on with the sense of haste born of desperation and necessity, they went into intensive training. War is not an orderly program, however. While some pi-lots had been training in Burma for about four months, before the action started, the last contingent of pilots did not arrive in Rangoon until the second week of November, less than a month before the Pearl Harbor attack. These late arrivals were integrated into the three existing squadrons, and some went into combat with less than a month of training in the P-40’s. Chennault, recapping later the story of his group said that while the AVG was blooded over China, it was their aerial exploits above Rangoon that put the stamp of history, as The Flying Tigers, upon them. In those ten weeks in the skies over Burma that took on the elastic dimensions of centuries compressed, the untried catch-as-catch-can American force not only survived the Japa-nese assault but repulsed the enemy, causing heavy losses.

The cold statistics for the ten weeks the AVG served at Rangoon, show its strength varied between twenty and five serviceable P-40’s. This tiny force met a total of a thousand-odd Japanese aircraft over southern Burma and Thailand. In 31 encounters they destroyed 217 enemy planes and probably destroyed 43. Our losses in combat were four pilots killed in the air, one killed while strafing and one taken prisoner. News of the Americans’ achievement electrified the world and gave courage to the faltering Allied forces, thus far repeat-edly defeated by the Axis powers. In the initial days in Rangoon, between Christmas and New Year’s Eve of 1941, the Americans shot down officially 75 planes with a loss of two Tiger pilots and six planes of their own. Never before had there been such a total air victory in the history of aerial combat. The name ‘’Flying Tigers” burned itself in the pages of world history for all time. In the seven months of combat that followed, the 85 surviving pilots and their tiger-toothed P-40s shot down, by of-ficial count, 299 enemy planes. They destroyed another known 240 Japanese aircraft. In addition, Tigers estimated a kill upwards of a thousand aircraft which could not be confirmed officially, but which pilots recounted having watched disappear into the mountains or sea. Outnumbered as much as eight to one, living under primitive conditions with shortages of food and military supplies, their planes held together by the determination and resourcefulness of their devoted ground crews, that handful of pilots checked the Japanese invasion of China.

The american Volunteer groupThe real Flying Tigers

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CongraTulaTions To our 2011 Winner nikolas bray

31 March 2011

Flying Tigers Association Scholarship Essay

My name is Nikolas Bray. I am a sophomore at the University of Oklahoma majoring in Aviation-Professional Pilot as well as Engineering-Environmental Science. I am a full-time American student and maintain a 3.94 cumulative GPA. Aviation is my passion and a major part of my life.

When I was about five years old I remember seeing a picture of a P-40 with the shark’s teeth painted on the nose at a fly-ing museum. I asked my mother what the nose meant and she replied that the airplane was one of the Flying Tigers from World War II. That was the majority of the exposure I had to the legacy of the Flying Tigers until I was eighteen. The sum-mer before I came to the University of Oklahoma to begin my flight training, I was absolutely set on learning everything I could about aviation, so I read books like Stick and Rudder and The Airplane Flying Handbook. It was not until I read Rob-ert L. Scott’s book God is My Co-Pilot that I became fully aware of the accomplishments of the Flying Tigers in central Asia.

The First American Volunteer Group got its start in central Asia in November 1941 under the command of Claire Chen-nault. Colonel Chennault was already active in China as an aid to Madame Chiang who was in control of the Chinese Air Force. By 1940, the Chinese Air Force had all but been destroyed. He was given the task of assembling an American group of volunteers to help rebuild and support the Chinese. After recruiting one hundred pilots and twice that many ground personnel, all of whom had to resign any American military commitments, Chennault established his group in Burma. These men were no longer associated with the United States military and were instead employed by the Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company. Using older B models of the P-40, many brought in from British orders, the group began train-ing Chinese pilots and had its first combat experience in December 1941 in the defense of Kunming where it destroyed four of ten attacking Japanese bombers. Later engagements included the defense of Rangoon and countless other encoun-ters with the Japanese where the Tigers performed tremendously in the face of surmounting odds. Chennault stressed an unconventional fighting style for his squadrons that helped lead to its success against the Japanese. Such tactics included “dive and zoom” which allowed the P-40 to surprise Japanese fighters and bombers and then escape to make another pass. This exploited the P-40s dive advantage over most Japanese aircraft and made it a deadly attack fighter.

Of course the pilots would have not success in the skies if it were not for the efforts of many more people on the ground. This included the ground crews of mechanics and machinists who worked tirelessly to repair and rebuild damaged aircraft as well as keep up with regular maintenance. In addition, thousands of Chinese civilians played a role in spotting and relaying information on attacking Japanese aircraft. By 1942, the AVG has fully assimilated into the United States military as an official force and many of the men went on to finish the war in other areas of the world. The legacy of these men and women who defended the Chinese homeland should never be forgotten. Their efforts helped save a nation and set the tone for future American combat tactics in the Pacific.

Dear AVG members, I have read your stories in books and magazines. I have seen your pictures and watched movies about your lives. How-ever, none of these things can properly convey the heroic and selfless nature of your actions abroad. I am proud to be a small part of the legacy that is the Flying Tigers. Thank you for enabling me with the opportunity to succeed. I will certainly make the most of this scholarship as I continue my flight training. Best, Niki Bray

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group headquarTers

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group Commander Chennault

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group headquarTers seCTion page 3

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1sT pursuiT squadron

adam & eVesquadron Commanders

sandell & neale

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1sT pursuiT squadron page 2

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2nd pursuiT squadron

panda bearssquadron Commanders

newkirk & hill

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2nd pursuiT squadron page 2

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3rd pursuiT squadron

hell’s angelssquadron Commander

a. olson

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3rd pursuiT squadron page 2

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rosTer of the honorably disCharged members of the ameriCan VolunTeer group, Chinese air ForCe

v Adair, C.B. “Skip” Staff, Operation and Supplyv Adkins, Frank W. Flight Leader v Allard, James L. Auto Mechanic v Alsop, Joseph W., Jr. Staff Historianv Andersen, Frank A. Crew Chiefi Armstrong, John Dean Wingmani Atkinson, Peter W. Wingmanv Bailey, George Crew Chief Baisden, Charles N. Armorerv Bartling, William E. Flight Leaderi Baugh, Marion Wingmanv Baughman, Edmund C. Communicationsv Beaupre, Leo A. Clerk, Transportationv Bell, Donald Clerk, Transportationv Bent, Morton W. Clerk, Operationsv Bishop, Lewis S., P.O.W. Vice Squadron Leaderi Blackburn, John Edward III Wingmanv Blackburn, William J. Crew Chief• Blackwell, Harold Crew Chief: Bolster, Harry R. Wingmanv Bond, Charles R., Jr. Vice Squadron Leaderv Bonham, Ernest O. Communications• Brady, James E . Clerk, Transportation• Breeden, Kenneth V. Clerk, Administrationv Brice, George Crew Chiefv Bright, John G. Flight Leader: Brouk, Robert R. Flight Leader Brown, Carl K. Flight Leaderv Bruce, Everett W., D.D.S. Dental Surgeonv Bugler, Carl F. Chief, Administrationv Burgard, George T. Flight Leader Callan, Michael R. Crew Chiefv Carney, Boatner R. Staffv Carter, John B. Line Chiefv Cavanah, Herbert R. Flight Leader• Ceder, Melvin E. Staff, Policev Chaney, Charles Crew Chiefv Chennault, Claire L. Group Commanderv Christensen, Keith Armoreri Christman, Allen Bert Staff, Intelligence; Flight Leaderv Clouthier, Leo Paul Clerk, Operationsi Cole, Thomas J., Jr. Wingmanv Colquette, Leon P. Crew Chiefv Conant, Edwin S. (Perry) Staff, Transportation; Flight Leaderv Cornelius, Jack Crew Chiefv Cribbs, Charles D. Clerk, Medical Orderlyv Croft, John S. Flight Leaderv Crookshanks, Jesse R. Crew Chiefv Cross, Harvey G. Communicationsv Cross, James D. Flight Leaderv Curran, George F. Crew Chiefv Cuhing, Albert D. Clerk, Operationsv Daube, Otto W. Crew Chiefv Davis, Doreen Steno, Typistv Davis, William H.S. Staff, Asst. Operations: Dean, John J. Flight Leaderv Dolan, Walter J. Crew Chiefi Donovan, John Tyler Wingmanv Doran, Francis R. Clerk, Administrationv Dorris, Carl E . Chief, Administrationv DuPouy, Parker S. Vice Squadron Leader: Durall, Eugene C., Jr. Clerk, Intelligence

v Engle, Charles R. Crew Chief• Engler, John R. Communicationsv Ernst, Richard J. Communicationsv Farrell, John W. Staff, Transportation Flight Leaderi Fauth, John Edward Crew Chiefv Fish, William H., Jr. Wingmanv Fobes, Edwin L. Clerk, Administrationi Foshee, Ben Crum Wingmanv Foster, Emma Jane Nurse (married John E. Petach, Jr.)v Fox, Harry E. Line Chiefv Francisco, Charles H. Communicationsv Frillmann, Paul W. Chaplainv Fritzke, Allen W. Armorerv Gallagher, Edward F. Crew Chiefv Gallagher, Robert Nursev Gasdick, Joseph Crew Chief; Sheet Metal Man• Gee, Chun Yuen Engineering Helperv Gentry, Thomas, C., M.D. Chief Surgeonv Geselbracht, Henry M., Jr. Flight Leaderi Gilbert, Henry G. Wingmanv Gorham, Lloyd L. Crew Chiefv Gove, Irving P. Crew Chiefv Goyette, Edgar T. Flight Leaderv Greene, Paul J. Flight Leaderv Greenlaw, Harvey K. Staff, Operationsv Greenlaw, Olga S. Clerk, Administrationv Groh, Clifford G. Flight Leaderv Hall, Lester J. Wingmani Hammer, Maax C. Wingmanv Harrington, Jasper J. Line Chief Harris, David H. Staffv Harris, Edward J. Chief, Administrationv Haywood, Thomas C., Jr. Flight Leaderv Hedman, Robert P. Flight Leaderv Hennessy, John J. Flight Leaderv Henson, Thomas M. Clerk, Medical Orderlyv Hill, David Lee Squadron Two Leaderv Hodges, Fred S. Flight Leaderi Hoffman, Louis Flight Leaderi Hoffman, Roy G. Staff, Armorer: Hooker, Burton L. Parachute Riggerv Howard, James H. Squadron Leader• Hoyle, Daniel J. Chief, Administrationv Hubler, Marlin R. Clerk, Operationsv Hurst, Lynn A. Wingmanv Janski, Edwin A. Propeller Specialist Jernstedt, Kenneth O. Flight Leaderi Jones, Thomas A. Staff, Transp.; Vice Squadron Leaderv Jordan, Joe T. Clerk, Financev Jourdan, Walter C., Jr. Clerk, Meteorologyv Kaelin, Albert V. Clerk, Administrationv Keeton, Robert B. Flight Leader• Keller, Daniel W. Crew Chiefv Kelly, Thomas D. Telephone Linemanv Kemph, Merlin D. Crew Chiefv Kenner, Charles D. Crew Chiefv Kepka, George B. Crew Chief v Kiner, Melvin W. Telephone Linemanv King, Robert J. Communications v Kustay, Stephen Armorer v Kuykendall, Matthew W. Flight Leader v Kwong, Lawrence C. Staff v Laughlin, C.H., Jr. Flight Leader

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v Lawlor, Frank L. Flight Leaderv Layher, Robert F. Flight Leader• Leaghty, Charles C. Parachute Rigger• Lee, Joseph S., M.D. Flight Surgeon v Lee, Pak On Engineering Helperi Leibolt, Edward J. Flight Leader v Lindstedt, Robert K. Communicationsv Linton, Jack R. Armoreri Little, Robert L. Staff, Engineering; Flight Leaderv Loane, Ernest W. Wingmanv Locke, Robert P. Propeller Specialistv Loomis, Elton V. Communications Losonsky, Frank S. Crew Chiefv Lum, George L. Engineering Helperv Lussier, Joseph E. Communicationsv McAllister, Gale E. Crew Chiefv McClure, Edgar B. Crew Chiefv McGarry, William D.-P.O.W. Wingmanv McHenry, Sharon L. Clerk, Engineeringv McKinney, Eugene R. Armorer: McMillan, George B. Vice Squadron Leaderi Mangleburg, Lacy F. Wingmani Martin, Neil G. Flight Leaderi Merritt, Kenneth T. Wingman: Mickelson, Einar I. Wingmanv Milhalko, Alex Communicationsv Miller, Arvold A. Communicationsv Misenheimer, Charles V. Crew Chiefv Moss, Kenneth R. Clerk, Meteorologyv Moss, Robert C. Flight Leaderv Mott, Charles D.-P.O.W. Flight Leaderv Musgrove, Willard L. Crew Chief: Musick, James H. Armorerv Neal, Robert J. Armorerv Neale, Robert H. Squadron One Leaderv Neumann, Gerhard Propeller Specialisti Newkirk, John Van Kuren Squadron Two Leaderv Older, Charles H. Flight Leaderv Olson, Arvid E., Jr. Squadron Three Leaderv Olson, Henry L. Crew Chiefv Osborne, Harold L. Crew Chiefv Overend, Edmund F. Flight Leaderv Overley, John L. Crew Chiefv Paull, Preston B. Crew Chiefv Paxton, George L. Staff, Finance; Flight Leaderv Peeden, Joseph N. Crew Chiefv Peret, Richard C. Staff, Engineering; Line Chiefv Perry, Paul J. Armoreri Petach, John E., Jr. Flight Leaderv Pietsker, Joseph H. Photographerv Pistole, Herbert Armorerv Pon, Kee Jeung Engineering Helper Poshefko, Joseph A. Armorerv Prescott, Robert W. Flight Leaderv Prevo, Samuel B., M.D. Flight Surgeonv Probst, Albert E. Flight Leaderv Quick, Carl Crew Chiefv Raine, Robert J. Flight Leader: Rasmussen, Robert P. Crew Chiefv Rector, Edward F. Vice Squadron Leader: Reed, William N. Flight Leaderv Regis, James E. Photographer• Regis, Stanley J. Crew Chiefv Richards, Lewis J., M.D. Flight Surgeonv Richardson, Roland L. Communications v Ricketts, Freeman I. Flight Leaderv Ricks, Wayne W. Propeller Specialist

v Riffer, Clarence W. Armorer: Roberts, Carson M. Communicationv Rodewald, Donald L. Armorerv Roger, Robert W. Crew Chiefv Rosbert, Camille J. Flight Leaderv Rossi, John R. Flight Leaderv Rumen, John N. Armoreri Sandell, Robert J. Squadron One Leaderv Sasser, Ralph W. Communicationsv Sawyer, Charles W. Flight Leaderv Schaper, Wilfred E. Crew Chief: Schiel, Frank, Jr. Staff, Intelligence; Vice Squadron Leader• Schiller, Ralph F. Armorerv Schramm, Leo J. Crew Chiefv Seamster, Loy F. Communication• Seavey, Edward H. Clerk, Operationsv Seiple, Wilfred R. Crew Chiefi Shamblin, Arnold W. Wingmanv Shapard, Van, Jr. Wingman• Shaw, John E. Clerk, Medical Orderlyv Shields, Milan R. Propeller Specialistv Shilling, Ericksen E. Flight Leaderv Shreffler, Roger Communicationsv Smith, Curtis E. Staff, Group Adjutant; Flight Leaderv Smith, Robert A. Crew Chiefv Smith, Robert H. Flight Leaderv Smith, Robert M. Communicationsv Smith, Robert T. Flight Leaderv Stewart, Jo B. Nurse Stiles, Edward L. Crew Chiefv Stolet, Irving J. Crew Chiefv Sutherland, William L. Auto Mechanicv Swartz, Frank W. Wingmanv Sweeney, Joseph H. Communications+ Sykes, William A. Communicationsv Terry, Julian E. Clerk, Administrationv Towery, William H. Mess Supervisorv Trumble, Thomas C. Staff, Secretary to Group Commander• Tuley, Chester A. Crew Chiefv Tyrell, George Crew Chiefv Uebele, John J. Crew Chiefv Van Timmeren, Frank E. Line Chiefv Vaux, Morgan H. Communicationsv Viverette, Hugh J. Clerk, Medical Orderlyv Wagner, Earl F. Armor• Wakefield, Manning, Jr. Crew Chiefv Walters, George F. Clerk, Administrationv Whelpley, Donald A. Clerk, Meteorologyv Whitwer, Eloise Steno-Typistv Williams, John M. Staff, Communicationsv Wilson, Clifford H. Auto Mechanicv Wingshee, George Lee Wing Engineering Helperv Wirta, Harvey C. Armorerv Wolf, Fritz E. Flight Leaderv Woodward, Melvin Crew Chief: Wright, Allen M. Wingmanv Wright, Peter Flight Leaderv Wu, Lem Fong Engineering Helperv Wyatt, Louis G. Communicationsv Wylie, Harold G. Clerk, Financev Yee, Francis T.F. Engineering Helperv Young, John P. Clerk, Engineering

i Lost their lives while in AVG: Lost their lives after AVG, before V-J Day, in war effort activities v Deceased (as of July 2011)• Unknown

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Well armed members of the A.V.G. pause for a photograph while traveling the Burma Road. From left to right: Harry Fox, Julian Terry, Jim Allard and Bob Neal. Courtesy B. Neal.

Above: 1st Squadron Pilot’s “de-brief” after returning from a mission, left

to right, Matt Kuykendall, John Dean, Carl Brown, Jack Croft, Jo Rosbert,

Charley Bond, Ed Liebolt, and Cokey Hoffmann. Courtesy E.J. Harris.

2nd Squadron Leader Jack Newkirk, left front, and Vice Squadron Leader Jim Howard behind the wheel, drive Tom Cole, Bill Bartling, and Bob Layher out to the flight line. Courtesy George Rodgers, Life Magazine Time, Inc. ©

Bob Layher, 2nd Squadron Flight Leader, stands alongside Johnny Petach’s P-40 with a hand painted “Panda Bear” riding a bicycle. Courtesy Bob Layher.

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Above: recruits of the first contingent of A.V.G. personnel on board the President Pierce. Kneeling from left to right are Metasavage, Ubelee, Blaylock, Osborne and Wylie. Standing left to right are Misenheimer, Sweeney, Hubler, Olson, Schramm, Young, Stiles, Dolan and Baisden. Photo courtesy of. C. Baisden.

3rd Pursuit Squadron ground personnel enjoying target practice. Crew Chiefs Irving Stolet firing rifle, Ed Stiles in front seat and Harold Osborne in foreground.

1st Pursuit Line Chief J.J. Harrington holds a Tiger decal by its tail. Courtesy J.J. Harrington.

Standing in front of the A.V.G. hospital in China are (left to right) Johnny Petach, Emma Jane Foster Petach, Jo B. Stewart and C.D. Cribbs. John Williams is kneeling with Julian Terry laying on the stretcher. Terry is recovering from an airplane crash which killed pilot Marion F. Baugh. Courtesy F. Doran.

A Chinese soldier guards a line of American P-40 fighter planes, painted with the shark-face emblem of the “Flying Tigers,” at a flying field somewhere in China, cira 1942. Courtesy of the National Archives.

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1st Squadron Flight Leader Bob Prescott poses with a 3rd Pursuit P-40 after downing another Japanese plane, Courtesy the American Fighter Aces Alblum.

Johnny Petach, above, stands on the wing of his P-40. Courtesy Emma Jane Hanks.

Crew Chief Frank Losonsky (3rd Sq.) climbs out of the cockpit of a Tomahawk after taxiing it to the line. Courtesy J. Crookshanks.

2nd Squadron Crew Chief John L. Overley sits in the cockpit as pilot Peter Wright climbs onto the wing. Courtesy Peter Wright.

1st Squadron pilons (left to right): Red Probst, John Blackburn, “Cokey” Hoffman and Ed Liebolt. Courtesy C.E. Dorris.

Pilots of the First Squadron in front of their billets. Standing from left to right are: Jack Croft, George Burgard, Greg Boyington (revolver in hand), Dick Rossi, Red Probst and Jo Rosbert. Courtesy C. Bugler.

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Standing on the porch of the 3rd Squadron’s ready shack, Right, are representatives of all three squadrons. From left to right: H.R. Cavanah (3rd), Tex Hill (2nd), Johnny Petach (2nd-background), Bill Reed (3rd), A.E. Olson (3rd), Moose Moss (2nd), Parker Dupouy (3rd), Bob Prescott (1st), and Cliff Groh (3rd), Courtesy C. Baisden.

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In memory of our dear friend and neighbor Chuck Engle

(crew chief - 3rd squadron - Hell's Angels)

The Bihn and Raleigh Families

Congratulations to the aVg Flying Tigers on their 70th anniversary

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The first contingent of AV.G. to depart the U.S .A for Burma consisted of forty ground personnel and Chaplain Paul Frillman. Beginning with the front row (left to right) are Hubler, McHenry, Metasavage, Jordan and McKinney. Second row: Pawley, Schurr, Fauth, Baisden, H.G. Cross, Wiley, Blaycock, Wyke, Perry, Stiles and Rogers. Third row: Engle, Kenner, Gasdick, Misenheimer and Riffer. Forth row: R.G Hoffman, Dolan, Kennedy. Fifth row: Bugler, Keller and Frillmann. Sixth row: R.A Smith, Sweeney. Courtesy C. Baisden.

aknoWledgemenTs

www.e-ventus.com

“We have been issued flight clothing which is the same as that furnished to us in the U.S. Navy.” John T. Donovan Wingman, 3rd Sq.

Air Force Jazz Band/NighthawkBihn - Raleigh Families

Cleveland Firefighters Pipe BandDesigns by Toma

Discount Drug MartThe Family of Chuck Engle

E-Ventus Barb FisherChris GoveJob Corps

Carol KlimaJim Lammers

National Concessions - Chris AxelrodDr. R. Mark Giuliano and the Old Stone Church

Jo Neal - Bill Baisden - Willa Baisden - Lydia RossiPainters District Council #6 Cleveland, Ohio

Painting Industry Insurance Fund Staff Larry M. Pistole - The Pictorial History of the Flying Tigers

Anne Pu - Erie Chinese JournalShaker’s Market Place

John Shaw/Liberty Studio - cover picture “Shark Sighting”Ed Stiles and Family

Paulette SuchanVitamix Corporation

Whitey Army - Navy StoreA big THANK YOU to our AVG members for the many photographs used in this book but

most of all for your years of service.

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Thank you!

Two types of U.S. military flight helmets and goggles more commonly worn by A.V.G. pilots.

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