They quickly demonstrated that in the right hands, the Curtiss P-40 could stand up to the best that Japan had to offer. The Flying Tigers in China were credited with 296 aerial victories, while ...

NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans will get a flavor of one of the most heralded episodes of World War II when a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, restored in the shark-nosed markings of the famed Flying Tigers, goes ...

One of three living members of World War II’s Flying Tigers returns to the sky in an iconic Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane for the first time in over 70 years.

Greeting visitors as they enter the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a Curtiss P-40E wears a shark face but was not a Flying Tiger.

The P-40 based at the Addison museum is painted to resemble the fighter of a Dallas Flying Tiger, Charles R. Bond Jr., who died in 2009.

While flying his own P-40, Smith took this image of his squadron mates lined up over the Salween River Gorge. Before the Flying Tigers were stationed in Kunming, they trained at a British airfield ...

The P-40 was not suited to close-turning dogfights with light, nimble Japanese Zero fighters. [Courtesy: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.] ...