ANNALS OF THE FLYING TIGERS
Three AVG pilots were killed in accidents while the
Tigers trained at Toungoo, Burma. They were apparently all buried at
St. Luke's graveyard on the southeast corner of the town. I tried to find
the site in 1986 without success. More recently, John Armstrong's family
has launched a search for the graves so that the remains can be repatriated.
The search is much complicated by the fact that the Burmese authorities
have evidently demolished St. Luke's, bulldozed the headstones off to
the side (photo at left), relocated the remains to another site, and
turned the old graveyard into a housing development, Southeast Asian style.
More photos and background here.
Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
A 'SPECIAL AIR UNIT' FOR CHINA:
- Bill Pawley and the Flying Tigers
- Recruiting the 1st AVG: the Navy memos
- Recruiting the 1st AVG: Bruce Leighton's memo
- Illusive target: Bombing Japan from China (Richard Dunn)
- The 2nd AVG: Sgt. Charland Down Under
- The 2nd AVG: 'Jimmy' Stewart's odd story (Time magazine)
- FDR orders the navy to release men for the 3rd AVG
- Lauchlin Currie: a spy at the heart of the AVG?
- Meet Olga and Harvey Greenlaw
- Mamie Porritt writes home from Loiwing and Rangoon
- The last days of the CAMCO factory at Loiwing (R.C. Wertz)
THE AVG FORGES A LEGEND:
- Questions you asked: the Flying Tigers FAQ
- Roster of the 1st American Volunteer Group
- Lacy Mangleburg writes home from Hamilton Field
- 'Your resignation is accepted' (George Burgard's scrapbook)
- 'He has crashed up three planes in the first week'
- AVG fliers who crashed in U.S. Army service
- An AVG identification card
- Lew Bishop writes home from Burma
- Three who died: the graves of St. Luke's
- Status of the AVG at the outbreak of war
- Layout of Mingaladon airport, Rangoon, December 1941
- Aircraftman Wilf Jepson of the AVG
- Bob Neale in Rangoon (from his diary)
- 'What Odds They Faced in Burma's Sky!'
- On the tactics used by AVG pilots (Erik Shilling)
- Bert Christman: life imitating art (Andrew Glaess)
- Greg 'Pappy' Boyington, Flying Tiger
- Arnold Shamblin writes home from Yunnan-yi
- Some of the lads at Kunming (Clare Boothe Luce's photo)
- AVG pilot losses, December 1941 - July 1942
- AVG victory credits, air and ground
- Nineteen Flying Tiger aces
- Heroes—but were they legal? (Richard Dunn)
- How many Tigers still with us?
THE P-40 FILES:
- Joe Baugher's articles on the small-mouthed Curtiss models
- Pilot's Notes for the AVG Tomahawk
- A Russian view of the P-40 Tomahawk
- 100 Hawks for China: the planes shipped to Rangoon
- Assembling and testing P-40s in Burma (Byron Glover)
- On spinning the Curtiss fighters (Erik Shilling)
- Number 80 does a ground loop at Toungoo
- Christman's nose art for the 2nd Squadron Tomahawks
- R.T. Smith's iconic photo of Tomahawks on patrol
- Some AVG 'veterans' in Kunming, c. 1943
- About those small-mouthed P-40 survivors
- Mac McGarry's Tomahawk in Thailand
- Recovering that P-40 from Lake Kunming
THE JAAF FILES:
- Japanese aircraft encountered by the Flying Tigers
- Suzuki-san recalls the AVG's first combat
- Rising sun over Burma (the Japanese histories)
- Mapping the Japanese attacks on Rangoon
- The AVG's persistent foe: the 77th Sentai (Richard Dunn)
- About those Nakajima Ki-43 machineguns
- Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa armament (Richard Dunn)
- JAAF fighter pilots lost in China-Burma area, 1941-42
- About those Japanese losses
THE CHINESE AIR FORCE FILES:
- Fly Boys of the Generalissimo (Samuel Hui)
- China Tiger: a short biography of Claire Chennault
- A Chinese view of General Chennault
- Sussing out the 'Chengdu Zero'
- CW-21 Demon in Chinese and Dutch service (Richard Dunn)
- Republic P-43 Lancer in Chinese service (Richard Dunn)
- Vultee P-66 in Chinese service (Richard Dunn)
- The AVG Blood Chit (from Last Hope: The Blood Chit Story)
BOOKS ETC.
- The Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942 (Daniel Ford)
- The Lady and the Tigers (Olga Greenlaw)
- Remains: A story of the Flying Tigers (Daniel Ford)
- The Flying Tigers store
- An AVG bibliography
- Books reviewed on this site | recommended titles
- A short guide to AVG films, past and present
- 'The Story of the 14th Air Force' (streaming video)
- Wow! Bam! Flying Tigers Comix! | Les Tigres Volants
A GOOD MYTH NEVER DIES:
- 'Straight from the Tiger's Mouth!' (GM advertisement)
- Ajax Baumler, the 100th Flying Tiger
- No, sorry, the AVG never met the Zero in combat
- Did the RAF 'sell' victories to the AVG?
- 1,500 planes shot down? The ultimate AVG myth
- Chris Shores on the subject of AVG victory claims
- Ed McClure: The Last Flying Tiger Ace (Zeke Striker)
- The strange journey of "Little Olson"
- Not a Tiger: an imposter 'fesses up
- What about that 'phantom P-40' shot down in China?
- It's official: the AVG fought for the U.S.
- Harvey Greenlaw in Baja: a friend remembers
- Erik Shilling, off on his last flight
- Hostel Number One and the Hump Bar, Kunming
Flying Tigers: the history
The Smithsonian Institution Press edition went through seven printings from 1991 to 2001. Now Flying Tigers is available again, revised and updated, from HarperCollins. Find it at Amazon websites in the United States - Britain - France - Germany - Japan - and Canada
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