March 24, 1942, the pre-dawn silence was broken at a small grass airstrip in China, lit only by the dim headlights of an old military truck. A small group of shark-mouthed American P-40s bearing the Chinese national insignia roared off into the darkness. Their mission: Destroy the enemy squadrons massed at the Southeast Asian headquarters of the Japanese Air Force at Chiang Mai, Thailand, before they have a chance to get off the ground! The very survival of this famous group of American volunteers Flying Tigers depended on the success of this extremely dangerous low-level strafing mission. in less than 10 minutes, this intrepid band so incapacitated the enemy forces at Chaing Mai that it became one of the Flying Tigers' most memorable raids. John Shaw had painstakingly worked with the AVG pilots to accurately recreate this dramatic moment in this second of a series of Flying Tiger scenes. |
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