Curtiss Hawk H81-A-2, P-8184, #44 of the A.V.G. Second Squadron Flight Leader Peter Wright, Rangoon, China, January 1942. Click the gallery thumbnail below for a larger...
Curtiss Hawk H81-A-2, P-8134, #48 of the A.V.G. Second Squadron, David Lee ‘Tex’ Hill, Toungoo, China, December 1941. ‘Tex’ Hill started his aviation career in the U.S. Navy flying TBD Devastators and SB2U Vindicators. He volunteered to join...
Curtiss Hawk H81-A-2, P-8138, #57 of the A.V.G. Second Squadron Vice Leader James H. Howard, Kunming, China, May 1942. James Howard joined the A.V.G. in June of 1941, and went on to command the A.V.G.’s 2nd Pursuit Squadron. He was officially credited with...
Curtiss P-40B, 2nd Lt. George Welch, 47th PS, 15th PG, USAAC, Haleiwa Air Base, Hawaii. Lt. George Welch was one of eleven American pilots who managed to get their planes off the ground and engage the Japanese on the morning of December 7th, 1941 during the Japanese...
P-47D-15-RE Serial Number 42-76249 Major Gerald W. Johnson, CO 63rd Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group, February, 1944. Gerald W. Johnson was the 56th Fighter Group’s first ace, and the second American ace in the European Theater of Operations (ETO). He went...
