With fine dust jacket in Mylar protector. *** CONDITION: Excellent copy, like NEW, UNUSED binding bright, silver stamped on front and spine. *** Color photos are posted to our website. *** Excellent reference, with lots of great vintage photos of flight crews and planes in Kunming and in Guilin. Mott was the first American aviator shot down and captured in World War 2, having been shot down January 8, 1942, and held Prisoner of War by the Japanese until the end of the war. and "Flying Tiger" Flight Leader of the Second Pursuit Squadron. Foreword by Captain Charley Davis Mott, U.S. There are numerous first-hand accounts of aerial combat by many of America's first Aces of World War 2 in Burma and China. Most of these photographs were previously unpublished. There are 16 pages of color photographs and 261 pages of text, 26 black and white photographs. A.V.G." "You will meet the "Flying Tigers," through photographs, most of which were taken by them in Burma and China and through their words, extracted from letters, diaries, interviews and original documents.". Comprehensive pictorial history of one of the most famous units aviation has ever known, The American Volunteer Group, better known to the world as the "FLYING TIGERS." Foreword by Capt. C: list of personnel, position/title, rank. B: List of P-40 Tomahawk numbers/data: plane number, fin number, squadron, tail stripe, pilot/s name.
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With three appendices: A: P-40 Tomahawk instruction manual excerpts. Written by the nephew of "A.V.G." and "FLYING TIGER" veteran armorer, Herbert Pistole. PHOTOS OF PERSONNEL, AIRCRAFT AND MANY OTHERS. AND "FLYING TIGER" UNIFORMS, EMBLEMS, PATCHES. THE SINGLE MOST AUTHORITATIVE PICTORIAL REFERENCE. RARE FIRST EDITION AUTHOR'S SIGNED, DATED PRESENTATION COPY. Orange, Publisher's Press.Buff brown cloth, fox spots on title pg.,fine dust jacket in Mylar protector,hundreds of b.w.photos,261p., appendices, 21.5 x 28.5 cm., bibliography.
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