The prototype for the P-40 series was first flown on October ... iconic imagery painted on the front of the aircraft was started by the Flying Tigers – although why a tiger would wear the ...

The Tigers found fame in the air and on the silver screen. The 1942 film "Flying Tigers" put a swashbuckling John Wayne in the cockpit of a shark-nosed P-40 blasting away at Japanese aircraft.

★ Curtiss P-40 Warhawk ★ An all-metal, 300 mph fighter, the P-40 was the frontline U.S. fighter when the war began. It was made famous by Claire Chennault’s Flying Tigers, who, among other ...

P-40 fighters of the Flying Tigers flew over Burma. (People's Daily Photo) Five Flying Tigers pilots who were saved by the New Fourth Army posed for photo in August 1944.

The Flying Tigers, known for their shark-toothed P-40s and fearless tactics, are back in action. This IL-2 Sturmovik movie recreates a daring raid on Japanese maritime forces, complete with ...

From a distance, the Curtis P-40 Warhawk at Wheeler's Kawamura Gate ... Having heard low-flying aircraft, machine-gun fire and loud explosions, Welch, who had returned from a party and was still ...

Fast forward to the 20 th century, when the group known as the Flying Tigers painted the front of one of the top WWII fighter aircraft, the Curtiss P-40, to look like a shark with a gaping mouth ...

This is a cinematic historical recreation of a flight of P-40 Flying Tiger fighter planes in World War II attacking a Japanese ship. This was made using the IL2 Sturmovik combat flight sim.

In February, “NBC Nightly News” aired a segment about a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon sub hunter aircraft flying over the South ... the bipolar one we operated in 40 years ago during the Cold War.