ANNALS OF THE FLYING TIGERS
Here's the artist's sketch of the Flying Tiger Heritage Park near what used to be the Guilin airfield. (It's now evidently a housing development.) Chennault's headquarters cave is about all that remains of the AVG and 14th Air Force base, and that's what inspired the museum, which is a collaborative effort of an American foundation and the Chinese government. Check it out!
Shantih (peace) to Edwin Janski, who died in Florida in May. He had one of those jobs that civilians have a hard time getting their minds around--he was a 'propeller specialist' for the AVG. His death leaves seventeen men and one woman still alive who served with the 1st AVG in Burma and China.
For some time I've been collecting names
of the men who signed up for the
2nd American Volunteer Group, a bomber force
that was ready to go in December 1941 but was aborted as a result of
the Japanese breakout of December 7/8.
Here's some correspondence from the Chennault
Papers about recruiting the 2nd AVG.
Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
