by the fierce defense of China skies by the pilots of the American Volunteer Group (The Flying Tigers), and the subsequent absorption and augmentation of that unit by the U.S. Army Air Forces ...

Udvar-Hazy Center, a Curtiss P-40E wears a shark face but was not a Flying Tiger. The aircraft is painted in the colors of the 14th Air Force 23rd Fighter Group, which in 1942 absorbed the mission ...