Long before the United States officially entered World War II, a small group of American volunteer pilots secretly resigned ...
The Flying Tigers were a mercenary group of pilots from the United States who flew combat missions against the Japanese armed forces which had invaded free China in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Outmatched at high altitude but tough, fast in a dive, and always available, the Curtiss P-40 carried the early air war when few better options existed. From Pearl Harbor and North Africa to China and ...
A recent visit to Buffalo of a P-40 Flying Tiger and the B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle helped me recall my experience of working on the victory shift. This is a term few people have heard about, ...