Good stuff and great photos here for the WWII buff that may have seen it all. Politically incorrect language ahoy!
http://cbi-theater-1.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater-1/flyingtigers/flying_tigers.html
Good stuff
I adore the time sink that is Google’s collection of old magazines - Life, Popular Science and so on … I can ignore the not particularly PC attitudes - they simply were the attitudes of the time. I can’t go back in history and change things, I can simply observe, and enjoy the peek into the past.
Me too. I can’t get enough of stuff like I posted.
My Grandfather joined these guys after they were folded back into the USAAC in 42’, I would love to find a pic of him.
Thanks for posting this
Capt
I got to meet some of these guys when I was a boy and my father became a VP at Flying Tiger lines.
Man, the tales at company picnics and stuff were awesome. They’d tell stories of flying during that war with all of us kids. It was like they were twelve feet tall.
Really? How awesome is that? Truly, you must cherish those stories…there’s not many of these guys around anymore…even Vietnam vets like my Dad are 70-something years old now. God, that makes ME feel old!
My grandad’s brother, Uncle D, flew with them and then was captured in China after the war’s end and imprisoned. This’ll be interesting, thanks!
mrAru’s father was one of the staff photographers for the Blue Angels back in the late 50s and had taken some killer pictures.
I tell you, back in the day military photographers got some amazing photo opportunities. He used to ride in the backup planes with the spare parts and maintenance guys and had some stories to tell from the guys who were ending their careers after 20+ years in the military.
Very cool article and photos.
FWIW, one of the pilots shown, John V Newkirk was killed around the time the magazine was published: