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...
Curtiss Hawk H81-A-2, P-8103, #3 of the A.V.G. First Squadron, J. Richard ‘Dick’ Rossi, Rangoon, China, February 1942. John Richard ‘Dick’ Rossi resigned his U.S. Navy commission in 1941 to join the American Volunteer Group (A.V.G.) under the...
Curtiss Hawk H81-A-2 P-8198, #5 of the A.V.G. First Squadron, Vice Leader Charles R. Bond, Rangoon, China, February 1942. Charles R. Bond, Jr. served with the American Volunteer Group ‘Flying Tigers’ in Burma and China during World War II. He finished his...
Curtiss Hawk H81-A-2, P-8162 #94 of the A.V.G. Third Squadron, Thomas C. Haywood, China, 1942. Haywood became a Flight Leader in the Third Pursuit Squadron after he joined the A.V.G. in the summer of 1941. Tom flew in the first large air battles over Rangoon, Burma...
